Following the Apollo landings, the space race and interest in space itself died off heavily. Plans for a second run of the Saturn rockets (albeit modified as they'd be) were canceled, there were to be no massive space stations or networks of space stations (focus was limited to Skylab -which was originally planned to be multiple stations before being cut to one and was itself abandoned-, and Mir, which would come almost two decades after Apollo), no moon bases, no Mars landings, nor anything further out as may have been possible, and instead focus was turned on a limited sphere with the utilization of the spaceshuttle.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have space race competition between the super powers and a strong presence in space exploration continue past Apollo, preferably with a POD either post 1965 or post 1969.
Your challenge, should you choose to accept it, is to have space race competition between the super powers and a strong presence in space exploration continue past Apollo, preferably with a POD either post 1965 or post 1969.