I guess he wanted a show with a lot of nudity and extra-marital sex to be not that close to the real excitement of the moon shot. One kind of mooning should give the other kind plenty of "space" or "time" in "space-time". Also, he had to wait quite a while for the stars to become adults so that he could legally have them in the movie.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.