I think nothing shows how big the space race really was than the fact that so many countries poured resources into building a national space program See the ca

I think nothing shows how big the space race really was than the fact that so many countries poured resources into building a national space program See the case of Argentina: http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en-419&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fes.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FHistoria_de_la_astron%C3%A1utica_en_la_Argentina http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en-419&sl=auto&tl=e... Another case worth mentioning is a forerunner of SpaceX the West German company OTRAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG