The following is a list of space races, that is, competitions or rivalries in going into outer space.

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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, won by no team
• America's Space Prize, the Bigelow Aerospace sponsored prize to create an American orbital space tourism capable vehicle, won by no team