List of space races
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The following is a list of space races, meaning competitions or rivalries between states or companies involving the development of space travel.
List
[edit ]Rivalries and political competitions
[edit ]- Space Race, the Cold War geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in space primacy
- Moon Race, the race to have the first human landing on the Moon
- Mars race, the rivalry between teams to put the first humans on or about the planet Mars
- Billionaire space race, the entrepreneurial rivalry for private spaceflight dominance mainly between Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk.
Contract competitions
[edit ]- Amerikabomber contract competition in WWII Nazi Germany Luftwaffe for a space bomber capable of striking the United States from Germany
Prize competitions
[edit ]- Ansari X Prize, the first X Prize Foundation prize for achieving repeated suborbital spaceflights using a space tourism capable vehicle, which was won by the SpaceShipOne team of Mojave Aerospace Ventures composed of Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and Vulcan Inc.
- Google Lunar X Prize, the X Prize Foundation prize sponsored by Google to put a robotic rover onto the Moon, currently ongoing
- America's Space Prize, the Bigelow Aerospace sponsored prize to create an American orbital space tourism capable vehicle, won by no team
See also
[edit ]- Space competition
- NASA Centennial Challenges
- List of vehicle speed records — for literal speed records of space vessels
- List of spaceflight records — for literal speed records of spacecraft
External links
[edit ]- Caleb A. Scharf (1 May 2013). "Space Race: A Comparison of the Speediest Spacecraft". Scientific American. — a literal spacecraft speed comparison, instead of the metaphorical races for outer space, listed above.