List of space races

The following is a list of space races, meaning competitions or rivalries between states or companies involving the development of space travel.

Rivalries and political competitions

 * Space Race, the Cold War geopolitical rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union in space primacy
 * Moon Race, the race to have the first human landing on the Moon
 * Mars race, the rivalry between teams to put the first humans on or about the planet Mars
 * Billionaire space race, the entrepreneurial rivalry for private spaceflight dominance mainly between Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, and Elon Musk.

Contract competitions

 * Amerikabomber contract competition in WWII Nazi Germany Luftwaffe for a space bomber capable of striking the United States from Germany

Prize competitions

 * Ansari X Prize, the first X Prize Foundation prize for achieving repeated suborbital spaceflights using a space tourism capable vehicle, which was won by the SpaceShipOne team of Mojave Aerospace Ventures composed of Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan, Paul Allen and Vulcan Inc.
 * Google Lunar X Prize, the X Prize Foundation prize sponsored by Google to put a robotic rover onto the Moon, currently ongoing
 * America's Space Prize, the Bigelow Aerospace sponsored prize to create an American orbital space tourism capable vehicle, won by no team