This is like trying to get govt to invent flight, when instead you just give markets as much power as reasonably possible. Cheap goods and services lead to innovation way better than govt capturing and "redirecting money to their brother's school."
The Soviet Union invented space flight.
If you can stomach it: https://youtu.be/0Xg4Uq1W4L8
Please don't ignore the thousands and thousands of examples of govt being terrible at this, for the handful of somewhat useful examples of shit sticking to the wall. It's still flinging shit
That's mostly just you grandstanding your ideology and not really contributing to a rational discussion.
Did Russia invent rocket propulsion?
How many dozens of millions died because of insane huge govt policies, like redistributing from the successful to the unsuccessful ...