DBWI: Space Race

What would happen in a world where more than one nation had a powerful space program at the same time (maybe the British and Russian Empires lasting to the present day could work)? Would there be a "race" to put the first man in space, satellite in orbit, satellite to another planet? Would it go so far as to have men even attempt to land on the Moon itself?
 
Well, I think you'd have to actually have more than one space power for that!

Maybe if the Soviets managed to gain a few of the German scientists post-WW2 rather than the US getting them all. I also wonder what this guy named Sergey Korolev might have accomplished had he not gotten on Stalin's bad side. He'd done some rocketry experiments in the thirties, but the purges got him.

(OOC: Came close to happening. Check out wiki.)

Edit: Oops! just noticed the late-added POD post! Disregard!
 
The British, maybe. I just can't see the Russians being all that interested in space travel. Maybe with a PoD before the Great European War.
 
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