The Moon Race is a tie

In this timeline, the Moon Race results in a tie between the United States and the Soviet Union.
==Timeline==
1951: Soviet space dog "Bobik" is launched as expectation of scientists.
1957: The launch of Sputnik satellites. The Vanguard satellite failed to get off the ground.
1958: NASA's first ever space probe Pioneer 1 flew past the moon and into the solar system.
1959: Soviet Luna probes became the first to reach the surface of the moon, and to photograph the back side of it.
1960: Two Soviet Mars probes are launched successfully despite oscillation in the rocket stages.
1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space and orbit, although due to spacecraft malfunction, he was forced to stay in orbit for a few days until he landed in the United States. A media fanfare ensued and instead of defecting, he duly went back to his motherland after a few months. The Mercury 13 program gets renewed attention in attempt to even up the Soviets, which caused Jerry Cobb to become the first woman in space (but not in orbit) on December.
1962: John Glenn became the first American in orbit. President Kennedy made the Moon speech.
1963: Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in orbit, while a rudimentary space station based on Project Mercury systems was launched as Mercury Atlas 10 later that year. Assassination of President Kennedy.
1964: The Soviet leadership decides to double down on its manned lunar program, while Khruschev is ousted in a coup and succeeded by Brezhnev. Launch of Voshkod missions.
1965: Alexei Leonov became the first man to perform a space walk.
1966: US began to gain dominance as it completed the first space rendezvous and docking, however Irina Solovyova from the USSR became the first woman to conduct a spacewalk.
1967: Apollo 1 disaster, however the astronauts survived with permanent disabilities. The same goes for Soyuz 1.
1968: Delays in Soviet manned lunar missions means that NASA's Apollo 8 is the first human mission to venture beyond Earth orbit.
1969: In the beginning of that year, Soviet Union catched up when it launched the 7K-LOK manned orbiting mission to the Moon and circled it more than Apollo 8 did. However, on July, Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the Moon in the Apollo 11 mission. Afterwards, Soviet Union send their own cosmonaut Alexei Leonov to walk on the Moon. China launches its first satellite.
1970: Despite misgivings, the Soviet Union reluctantly lets Valentina Ponomaryova to become the first woman to walk on the Moon. This caused a public perception that the Soviets are catching up. Thus, Apollo programs are allowed to continue with less hindrance although Apollo 13 landed at an area with boulders which caused difficulties during its takeoff.
1971: Soviet Union finally launched their first space station, Salyut 1. This was touted to be the "true" space station unlike Mercury-Atlas 10.
1972: Launch of Pioneer space probes to the outer planets.
1973: Launch of Skylab by NASA.
1974: Conclusion of Apollo 20.
1975: Apollo Soyuz mission. 
1976: The first lunar base "Jamestown" is constructed in the Ocean of Storms.
1977: Start of the Grand Tour of the Solar System by Voyager probes. The Soviets construct their own lunar base, Zvezda.
1978: Near conflict between American and Soviet astronauts on the Moon.
1979: Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1981: Debut of Space Shuttle and the Sea Dragon rockets.
1982: Launch of Moonlab, a derivative of Skylab.
1983: Jamestown lunar colony expands into resources mining. 
1984: Ted Kennedy won that year's election.
1986: Chernobyl and Zvezda twin nuclear disasters.
1988: The Jamestown colony is almost abandoned after public backlash against space programs due to twin nuclear disasters in the Soviet Union.
1991: The Soviet Union broke up.
1992: Retirement of Apollo space launchers and pause of Sea Dragon program.
1993: Russian parliamentary crisis. Yuri Gagarin and his family moved to the United States under permanent residency.
1996: Russia launches Mars-96 to Mars, rekindling interest in space exploration again.
2001: Launch of Pluto Kuiper Express to the namesake planet.
2005: The Constellation program is approved by the US. This had an effect of resurrecting the Jamestown colony later on.
2006: IAU demoted Pluto to dwarf planet. Launch of TAU (Thousand Astronomical Units) spacecraft.
2010: A spacedock, from a 1986 study, is assembled in Earth orbit and attached to the International Space Station.
2011: The space shuttle does not retire.
2012: Pluto Kuiper Express flew by its target. 
2013: Ukrainian revolution.
2014: Russo-Ukrainian war.
2015: Discovery of gravitational waves by LIGO.
2020: Resurrection of the Jamestown colony.
2022: Russian invasion of Ukraine. This was denounced by many including Yuri Gagarin.