The Space Race YouTube Stats

@thespaceraceyt · Science & Education · Updated Nov 6, 2026

The Space Race channel overview

The Space Race (@thespaceraceyt) is a YouTube channel in the Science & Education niche created in 2021. It has 927K subscribers and 230M total views across 487 videos, an average of 473K views per video over its lifetime.

Its last 30 uploads averaged 1.1M views, and a typical video (the median) gets 880K views. Over the last 12 months, The Space Race published 50 videos (24% Shorts), and 9 of them (18%) reached at least 3× the channel's typical views.

How much does The Space Race make?

Returbe estimates The Space Race's YouTube ad revenue at $30K – $103K per month. The estimate uses an RPM (revenue per 1,000 views, after YouTube's share) of $3.36 to $11.52, typically $6.24, based on the channel's niche, audience language and the share of its views coming from Shorts. At that rate, 1 million long-form views earn about $6.2K.

Ad revenue is only part of the picture: sponsorships, affiliate links, memberships and merch often pay more than ads. Learn how RPM varies by niche in how much YouTubers make per 1,000 views, or check any channel with the free monetization checker.

Upload schedule

The Space Race publishes about 9.8 videos a month. Based on its last 50 uploads, its most common upload day is Saturday (70% of uploads), usually around 19:00 UTC. The last video went out on Nov 5, 2026.

The Space Race's best outlier videos

An outlier is a video that beats the channel's own typical views. These are The Space Race's biggest hits relative to its normal, the ideas its audience responded to most. What is an outlier video?

• What NASA Found on Io5.4M views · Feb 14, 20266.2× typical views
• Something Weird Is Happening On Europa5.3M views · Sep 26, 20266× typical views
• How Starlink Actually Works4.1M views · Sep 12, 20264.7× typical views
• How NASA Will Build The Artemis Moon Base4M views · Apr 4, 20264.5× typical views
• This changes everything for SpaceX650K views · Nov 3, 20264.1× typical views
• What Exactly Happened on Artemis 23.2M views · Apr 11, 20263.7× typical views
• Why is everyone going to this hole in the Moon2.9M views · Oct 10, 20263.3× typical views
• Why Did The First Lunar Probe Have A Bomb Attached to it?531K views · Sep 2, 20263.3× typical views

Latest videos

14 of The Space Race's last 30 uploads did at least 1.5× the channel's typical views.

• The end of Falcon 920K views · Nov 5, 20260.1× typical views
• This changes everything for SpaceX650K views · Nov 3, 20264.1× typical views
• NASA Is Making Big Changes To Artemis797K views · Oct 31, 20260.9× typical views
• SpaceX’s Secret Reason For Choosing Louisiana!32K views · Oct 29, 20260.2× typical views
• The World’s Largest Spaceport36K views · Oct 27, 20260.2× typical views
• Jupiter isn't a planet2.3M views · Oct 24, 20262.6× typical views
• The Real Reason Starship Has 33 Engines1.9M views · Oct 17, 20262.1× typical views
• How Does Starlink Actually Work?160K views · Oct 11, 20261× typical views
• Why is everyone going to this hole in the Moon2.9M views · Oct 10, 20263.3× typical views
• Why Does SpaceX Need So Many Satellites?46K views · Oct 4, 20260.3× typical views

The Science & Education niche on YouTube

In the last 30 days, Returbe tracked 2.4K videos from 345 channels in this niche. 10.7% of them reached 3× their channel's typical views, and a typical long video got 9.6K views. Estimated RPM for the niche: $3.5 to $12.

Smaller channels breaking out in this niche right now: Wonderism HQ (51K subs, best video 400.5×), ClipPodcast (29K subs, best video 25×), The Scale Room (1.3K subs, best video 288.8×), Past the Blue (34K subs, best video 16.9×), The Why Side (47K subs, best video 194×), Disasters Explained (28K subs, best video 78.8×).

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Frequently asked questions

Data from Returbe's index of YouTube channels, collected from public YouTube data. Earnings are estimates from views and RPM benchmarks, not figures from the channel. Returbe is not affiliated with The Space Race or YouTube.