alternate space race

1919-1949 (The first thirty years) Setting the Stage Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points were idealistic and perhaps exceptionally foolhardy, but the text's substance implies a utopian vision for the future. In our timeline, these points never passed the proposal stage and were never considered...

Hi i wanted to make this timeline of an expanded Apollo Program ie. More rockets, spacecraft and more lunar missions. I want to share it to this community because i think it would be interesting and all that. So before i post i figured i'd get insight on what the community would think of this...

I am fond of the Apollo Missions and i wondered what if it was extended up to 24? So i came up with this timeline where i will cover from 1965 to 1979 from the POD, up to the launch of Columbia in 1979 so without further ado let's begin and discuss an extended Apollo Program Part 1: An Uncut...

Introduction Welcome to Dreams of Atomic Midshipmen, the equal parts reboot, reimagining, and continuation of the two-time Turtledove-nominated timeline LEVIATHAN Rising: An Alternate Space Age. This is a story about the rather novel premise of the United States Navy being the agency at the...

This is an alternate timeline much like For All Mankind where the Space Race continues on beyond Apollo 11. Pathfinder and Sea Dragon also exist because they are friggin awsome and cool so don't @ me. I will update semi regularly and don't worry about accuracies, major plot points or grammar bc...

CHAPTER 1 Destruction or Discovery To start off, we must first look at the past. Just after the collapse of the Nazis, to be exact. The German Reich was a pioneer in missile technology, amassing over 30,000 V1 flying bombs and 5,000 V2 ballistic missiles. After the war, Germany was split between...

What if the Space Race never ended? What if the Space Race continued? What if NASA didn't land a man on the Moon first? What if Soviet Russia did? What if Sergei Korolev never died, causing Russia to land on the Moon, which in turn causes the United States to try and out compete Russia, in turn...

Introduction: This was a Alternate Cold War story publish in Alternate History.com in 2014 Sadly over years thing went not so well and my co-authors lost interest or had not time anymore. Next to that happen Apple Tv Series "For All Mankind" and demand re issue the TL I have decided to...

Specifically, at ~5% of the federal budget, or a growth past that. I would love it if you could suggest something that hasn't already been explored a lot. I'd also appreciate it if you could provide a very specific PoD.

Blue Moon (WIP name) A timeline where Britain are the first on the moon. February 1962: Following John Glenn’s successful orbit of the earth, the British government is faced with a question. Do they pursue a space program, requiring tremendous amounts of money, effort, and support, or do...

Scott Harms woke up in a cold sweat. He wasn’t scared, or nervous. At least he didn’t think he was, it’s not like he’d admit it. Maybe it was because during the previous night, he dreamt about some sort of a speech. He couldn’t really see anything in the dream, not anything memorable, but he...

Blue Moon A timeline where Australia and the commonwealth are the first on the moon. January 1962: The British Aerospace and Design Agency (BADA) is authorised by Harold MacMillan. It’s objective is originally for advancements and military applications for jets. April 1962: The first...

Hello all. I recently read the Dark moon timeline (which is fantastic by the way) and thought to myself, what if Britain landed on the moon. Of course there are issues with this. It doesn’t seem plausible that Britain would be able to launch, as this would require a launch site and a vehicle. At...

“Today is a great day for the Soviet people. The Reaction-Engine Research Center will be instrumental in our great effort to find ever more efficient and faster methods of transportation. To find methods so that we may one day, be among the stars as well. It will be a long time before that is...

Welcome to LEVIATHAN Rising, a Turtledove-nominated timeline about the rather novel premise of the United States Navy being the agency at the heart of the American space program. Or my preferred alternative title: Admiral Heinlein Conquers Space With Mythological Cryptozoology and the Bestest*...

It’s Just My Job April 28, 1962 NASA Administrator Hugh Dryden lazily looked over papers on his desk as he watched the TV and waited. An empty podium was on display. The speech that the President was about to give would define American spaceflight for the coming decade, and was the culmination...

I know that the USSR did have a design of a moon rocket the N1 but I don't know how seriously they took it or how close they got. I have read somewhere that they gave up after the Americans made it so as not to be second. Is this true? If they had kept at it how soon could have they placed men...

The rise of the Russian space station program, the area where the Soviet then Russian government would stay ahead of the west until 2014, started with a treason in 1960. While Gagarin was climbing into space, paving the way for mankind to follow, Chelomei was planning to militarize this feat...

Exactly what it says on the tin. Can a BIS Moonship conduct a manned Lunar landing before July 20th, 1969? Personally I think it’s possible, but then I am a member of BIS, so I may be a bit biased. For those of you who don’t know exactly what I’m talking about, here are some articles about the...

What is the earliest possible date, in a 20th century with closely similar technological progression of spaceflight as in OTL, that the first man on the Moon ends up being an African-American citizen of the US, or a person of Afro-Caribbean descent, or a person born directly in an African...