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What would it take to have a most magnificent space race. In this TL the Soviets would have to do better to force the USA to keep spending and both sides would have to have more money to keep going.

What changes would have had to happen to have this take places and what kind of things could have happen realistically (moon bases, manned mars missions etc..)

For starters maybe:

1) No vietnam war (or minimalized vietnam war), both sides have more money.
2) Soviet Rocket designer Korolyov lives

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergey_Korolyov

Soviets are at least able to get cosmonauots in moon orbit by early 1970s with some sort of robotic only landing and sample recovery mechanism pushing the USA to keep going to establish a moon base.
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