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So we end up with a Germany that looks like it did before the war (militant and monarchist) and a Poland that is the same size as before the war. All you need is Austria Hungary and it's status quo ante bellum...

Overall, it is second only to windows variants if you count embedded devices (nearly every router uses Linux, and Android now is the second largest smartphone OS) and servers (something like 70% of the Web runs Linux). So, it's only really on the desktop where it lags, as third after OS X. The...

Yeah, I can swap over Poland and Spain. Not sure about the Soviets attacking Romania, though, with East Prussia (Prussian Soviet Socialist Republic?) and northern Poland under their control, the Baltic republics actually look like the lowest-hanging fruit. Just how democratic are Greece and...

Map v.2; now focusing on the politics of Europe...

An attempt at a map; it's hard to see, but the French corridor goes right up to Dusseldorf.

I'll second that! Very good!

Did you read the PDF I posted? From the summary: In other words, keeping Syklab I going was not in the cards in 1973, but launching a series of them (like the Soviets did with Salyut) potentially was. And since this study ignores Shuttle, it should fit into your TL...

You mean something like this? http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/19730015118_1973015118.pdf NTRS is great resource...

The better question is just what they would use to launch it. The most powerful Chinese rocket at the time was the CZ-2, which could loft 2.2 tonnes. Gemini, on the other hand, weighed ~3.7 tonnes. CZ-2C could do barely 3.2 tonnes, and it wasn't ready to just launch recon sats until 1982. So...

Well, you already have an "emergency government"; who's to say it has to dissolved at the end of the war? :)

There's a lot of myth around them. It turns out they were "tested" by one of the doctors involved in the NASA selection process, but not by NASA itself, and thus not the full process. And they guy who did it was trying to make a political point, so he isn't exactly the most reliable source...

Great read, very well done. Kinda off-the-wall, but what's the state of fission-power research in TTL 1954? Without the trauma of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and with the very existence of the fission-bomb under wraps, my guess would be secret, but extensive, use. In order to make the Genie...

Less landers means one or zero! And while they can, I doubt NASA will cede the Soviets the first real Mars landing. But, you could split the Viking landers from the orbiters (which were just upgraded Mariners). Maybe something like this: 1974: Upgraded Mariner (essentially Viking Orbiter) to...

Viking didn't exist in 1968; Voyager Mars was still being studied, as Mariner 9 had yet to show that the Martian atmosphere was about ten times too thin for Voyager to work. That said, some Mars mission may still happen in the 1970's; Titan III will still be around, and it would be throwing a...

Without the WNT, would the UK have gone after the Dominions to pay for the Navy? I know they did to some extent (e.g. HMS Canada), but having the Dominions pay for and man some of the capital ships would both allow Britain to both have a sort of "parity" with the US, while also helping to...

New Challenge: Independent Nazi Bavaria! :)

Ah, but Russia-Lithuania has other "interests" in the far east...

Pardon, ou non? This is getting quite interesting...

Awesome. Heck, just having GWB do real combat service could have resounding shockwaves...

The US only really did overflights of Soviet territory before Powers' U-2 got shot down. After that, they moved to satellite-based intelligence of the Soviets (indeed, that was Ike's motive for funding satellite recon in the first place), and just did overflights of Vietnam, China, Cuba, etc...