I think the fact that the absence of a space race would apply to the lack of an arms race ITTL given that the cold war ended very early than it had and that military technology in general would be stunted to 1960's or 1970's levels. Come to think of it, in the Korean War both sides used WWII weapons to an extent (barring new tanks and jet fighters) and they would do the same in a WWIII, unless by the war's end new types of weaponry would be created (including armed helicopters and missile weapons).There won't be any Space Race. Without Sputnik, NASA might not exist (or it's formed later) and space travel is done solely by the USAF. Without the need for ICBMs, rockets would be much less powerful. Satellites would eventually be launched, probably no later than the seventies, because they are just so useful. Eventually, the USAF would launch astronauts into space and there might even be space stations, but there won't be a moon landing. OTL Apollo cost about $100 billion (adjusted for inflation). With no space race there is simply no incentive to spend vast sums of money on a moonshot.
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