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A few things I can imagine: Officially, the derailment occurred because the driver, Ryūjirō Takami, attempted the turn at 116 kmph, when it was shown that derailment was assured at 106 kmph. But his blatant speeding was on account of missing a Red Light Signal (which forcibly activated the...

Not bad. Certainly gives a sense of perspective looking at them all side-by-side.

I have to agree, so I suppose it would be more accurate to say that the Brabazon should never have been built with that particular purpose in mind. Namely to take on the Cruise Ships of the 1930's, which had been its intended goal.

The De Havilland Comet 5: A variant which never made it past this Initial Drawing Phase, but apparently was to be the maximum that could be squeezed out of the Basic Comet design (post-massive re-do following its early disasters and subsequent investigation), so it's unlikely to have been...

John Smith would be an obvious candidate, but let's not forget his Fatal Heart Attack right before the 1995 Budget Speech - which not only delayed it, but had to be delivered by then-Treasury Secretary Gordon Brown. You'd need to butterfly that away to make him a future PM. One thing I tend...

IIRC, the N1's first stage used Differential Throttling for Pitch Control, while the Centre Ring gimballed on one axis for Roll Control

I find the idea interesting, but, there's two problems: 1 - It's on a streaming service, so can't watch it 2 - The premise has some issues with it. Namely, having Korolev survive his operation, by itself, could never have managed a Soviet Manned Moon Landing. This is on account of just...

Well at least the Outer planets are still getting attention, if later than OTL from NASA, though at least now they can spend some time and money on it. Shame that they missed the Great Dark Spot because of it... (was only noticed IOTL thanks to Voyager 2 being there at the right time)

I'm still following, will be nice to see what comes next... ...though it seems the images all need to be reuploaded

IOTL the Titan IV was approved either right after or shortly before Challenger, entering service in 1988. It's problem is that it's a hugely inflexible LV with a total dependence on its 7-seg SRBs just to get off the ground, so getting a non-N2O4/A50 LV into service I can see as being a USAF...

Hard to say. While it is true that Alan B Sheppard achieving Sub-Orbital a few weeks before Yuri Gagarin's Orbital Flight would give the US some cheer in making it into space via a Rocket before the USSR, the fact is it's still Sub-Orbital versus a Full Orbit. Thus I can still see Khrushchev...

The early SpaceX plans... ...feels like a lifetime ago...

I doubt it. Short of Ford gaffing(*) big time, I can't see how Carter could pull it off, especially given Ford's better-than-expected performance at the Rallies and Debates. Though make me wonder how Carter running would change everything else though, since I haven't forgotten that 1982...

Hmm, hard to say, but I'm inclined to agree, if only because - as you said - BR by the 1980's was in dire need of funding, but more importantly, massive upgrading and modernisation. But then this was true of just about the whole of the UK Industrial Sector... I have a rather different...

The problem with this, is that even at the beginning the USSR had serious problems at home: All their early firsts had been (relatively) inexpensive, with a high PR Value, so securing support for it wasn't terribly difficult The Soviet Military pretty much held the purse strings, so anything...

I thought the exposed area was made of Stainless Steel, which combined with its thickness allowed Atlantis to survive the damage to its tiles. But yeah, there is no need to move the damaged portion to the RCC panels, there are after all plenty of ways to get a LOC Situation with STS...

As I read it, there's still a lot of Congressional Inertia forcing Ares Remnants to remain hooked up to a lifeline, but still some changes here relative to OTL, mainly a greater willingness to see Commercial Launch & Services - hence the higher-than-OTL $500M vs $350M IIRC. K-1 responsible for...

Well, at least ITTL there's already something to demonstrate the viability of commercial suppliers providing the Service - as opposed to just the parts which NASA then uses as its own - by the time this speech is made. And if I'm reading it right, an earlier willingness to compromise/offer...

50% between two parties mind. The FPTP Voting System tends not to allow smaller parties to break through until a critical threshold is attained. Selective Seat Contesting and backing each other tipping the balance here and letting them govern as a Coalition. OOC: The 1980's have already...

In truth, by the time his Second Term came to a close, the Economy was well on the path to recovery. But, IMHO, that had more to do with Global Factors than specific decisions made during his Term. Didn't stop him receiving the credit for said Recovery though, and is part of the reason for...