Space Race Without WW2

With my incessant desire to avert WW2, I've always had this question in the back of my mind. Conservative nationalist regime in Germany, bla bla bla, and by mid-century we have a semi-stable international system with 8 great powers (the main OTL winners and losers). How do you think space exploration would develop?
 
With my incessant desire to avert WW2, I've always had this question in the back of my mind. Conservative nationalist regime in Germany, bla bla bla, and by mid-century we have a semi-stable international system with 8 great powers (the main OTL winners and losers). How do you think space exploration would develop?

Maybe an artificial satellite in late 1990s.
 
One important question in particular is which countries do you think would be motivated to take the lead? For example, assuming that there's a man on the moon at some point (maybe in the 21st century), which country do you think would be most likely to put him there?
 
Well Germany was rocket mad in the 20's and enjoyeda golden age of Physics. Is this were to continue then we can expect some sort of space program from all the main candidates by the fifties.

Development will be slower but not critically.
 
Well Germany was rocket mad in the 20's and enjoyeda golden age of Physics. Is this were to continue then we can expect some sort of space program from all the main candidates by the fifties.

Development will be slower but not critically.

Untill another great war erupts and the process speeds up again.
 
Untill another great war erupts and the process speeds up again.

WW2 is not inevitable if you remove the Nazis, there are too many buffers between the powers. If Japn goes down the same path then there will be a minor pacific war where the Soviets, Americans and European colonial powers defeat Japan within a year but apart from that a major war will likely be avoided.
 
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