I don't know about you but I felt the producer or screenplay writer was a religious nut, or prehaps tried to create great story mixing in religious nuts, since in the middle of the episode after the astronaut sabotages the ship, speaks : "...its was not a space race, it was not about politics, science, technology...it was really all about us...reaching god..."
WTF!!!! it lacks basic common sense!! I suppose if was not "about us" building the spaceship with science as discipline he could not be there in the first place!! is the producer trying to "imply" that it was because of "fantasy man" in the sky we strive for knowledge????!!!! WTF!!!!