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Yep, that was almost as good as Walter Cronkite's flight a year of so later as part of the Journalist in Space program. Not only did he file some great stories for CBS, it was just fun to watch how much damn fun he was having.

The A-10N SeaHog proved to be more popular with the USMC where it found a ground-support role:

US Navy A-10N "SeaHog" deployed from USS Enterprise (CVN-65), circa 1982. The squadron, VFA-103 ("Jolly Rogers"), had transitioned from F-14 Tomcats just a year prior.

For real fun pair him on the ticket with Henry Jackson, one of the last democratic defense-hawks left from the Kennedy era.

Yeah, yeah, Connery was great in LotR. But the best nerd casting of the 90's has got to be Matt Damon as Captain Kirk in the new series of Star Trek movies. Although Gary Sinese as McCoy steals every scene he's in, as does Billy Connolly as Scotty.

USAF B-49 Bomber nick-named Bob's Boomerang being prepped for it's fateful nuclear strike on China after MacArthur's push into Manchuria during the Korean War (1950-54). Boomerang was the only aircraft of it's strike group to make it back to friendly territory and now occupies honored space at...

What if in 1959, President Eisenhower does not establish NASA? Instead he charges the military to continue it's work in the area of rocketry and space-travel. How does the space program progress as opposed to OTL? Do we get to the moon sooner? Or does this result in an overall slower...

^^^ OOC: I'm sorry, what now? Is this a riff on Man in the High Castle? FWIW, what I had in mind was history happening like it did in OTL until the '88 election when Iacocca running and winning the Presidency changes things.

News this morning that Lee Iacocca, the 41st President of the US (1989-93) has died. What, if anything, will be the lasting legacy of his Presidency? Aside from his surprising win as an Independent presidential candidate (something no one else has managed before or since), how should we look...

Not the initial push, perhaps, but it'd be a good staging point for ongoing support of operations. Maybe you could talk Qatar and/or Bahrain into use of facilities.

How about Diego Garcia? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Support_Facility_Diego_Garcia

So, if VP Henry Jackson hadn't died in September of '83, do you think he might have been elected in '84 and carried on the legacy of RFK's eight years in office?

Agreed. Plus the RFK-Scoop Jackson ticket was unbeatable in -'76. The GOP never had a fighting chance against them.

Poster for the popular film directed by George Lucas and starring Tom Selleck. The first movie to out-gross Steven Spielberg's 1977 epic The Star Wars.

FWIW, I was stationed with a US Army combat engineer battalion in the early 80's. We trained a heck of a lot more for chemical warfare thrown at us than we did for nukes as I recall. I'm really glad we never had to fight in central Europe. The idea of my unit rushing to the Fulda Gap to try...

Carter was a good man who was not a great President. He would, IMO, have made a really fantastic Secretary of State for another President though.

Purely unintentional, I assure you. Would have to check about the tanks - and I am sure my scenario is no doubt chock full of inaccuracy and impossibility, but I liked the idea of it too much to care.

January 1979 - preparations underway at Vandenberg AFB's SLC-6 facility to launch space shuttle Enterprise in a mission to save the still-orbiting Skylab. Crewed by astronauts John Young and Fred Haise, Enterprise will attach a booster to Skylab to move the ailing station to a more stable...

I agree that 1953 is a stretch without some big changes to the timeline earlier on. For what it's worth, there was a book by Wernher von Braun called First Men to the Moon that showed his vision of a moon flight circa 1960-ish. Very cool illustrations by Fred Freeman: Perhaps a bit too...

In 1952 the nation of Israel offered it's presidency to physicist Albert Einstein. Einstein turned it down saying the didn't have the personality for the job. But, what if he had accepted? How would this change how Einstein is regarded by history? How would this have changed Israel's history...