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If any country could afford having more than one space program, it was the United States. I've always wondered what the space race would have looked like if, for example, the main competition had been between the US Army and the US Air Force (rather than being between NASA and Korolev as OTL), or if the US had kept 4 programs going (NASA, USAF, Navy and Army) or if NASA had never been formed, and all the US space efforts of OTL had been done by the military space teams...

But then, even if there had been no Eisenhower presidency and military spending had not been cut, I have difficulty seeing the US being happy to leave its efforts balkanized. So I thought I'd see if anyone else had any thoughts of how to achieve this?

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