moon

Something I've been kicking around for my incoming graphics timeline (totally still happening, I know you're all positively chomping at the bit for it, it's en route, promise) is the visibility of permanent settlement on two pretty inhospitable locales: Antarctica and the Moon. Let's leave...

The first words spoken on the Moon are known by heart: "That's one small step for [a] man, one giant leap for mankind." In the sci-fi television series For All Mankind, the Soviet Union is the first to achieve a manned lunar landing, with their cosmonaut making a more boastful statement: "I...

Some alternate space timelines try to be "realistic" and fit within expected economic and political limitations, being slightly more (or less) advanced in capabilities than OTL. Others push the boundaries of realism or outright break them altogether (as if an ASB intervened) to create...

Chapter 1 - Seeking Remote Globes “It is a plain road from the Earth to the stars, though mortal feet cannot tread it.” September 6, 1958 - South Atlantic Ocean The USS Norton Sound, having left the Californian port of Hueneme last month, now remains stationary amidst the frigid waves...

Hey all. I have recently been motivated and inspired to finally get around to writing that space story I've always wanted to write. Between rediscovering an old rocket (and subsequently realizing I quite enjoyed its looks), and being frustrated with the now impossibility of a 2024 lunar return...

(quick word of warning, i have literally never posted to this forum before so if i've done anything wrong, please let me know, thanks!) (also, big thanks to RaptorNM for getting me into this, i'll be running this thread alongside his) The year is 1965. After a successful streak of dominance...

Happy Monday Everyone! Today I want to bring you the first chapter in my alternate history story, "One Giant Leap: The Voyage Beyond". A story inspired by my thoughts of a Space Shuttle program that returned us to the moon and took us to Mars. I have often seen alternate history stories that...

In response to the Japanese economy and space program losing its ambitions in almost every modern timeline, an alien space bat decided to give the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) an unlimited budget and resources for space development. The agency thus became known as JAXA+. The early...

Prelude: Birth of a Giant "I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to Earth." - President John F. Kennedy, 25th May, 1961, United States Congress, Washington DC...

So, I've been wondering what the possibilities are when it comes to creating a timeline for the N1 program that is a) realistic, and b) doesn't have a POD earlier than 1966. So, because I have no actual writing skills, I created this (rather literal) timeline, and I was wondering what some of...

Here is something from October 2016: As you can guess Mr. Degtyarev statement was met with much jokes on the Eastern European side of the internet. At the same time, it isn’t as silly as it first appears as Ukraine does have a space-rocket industry (albeit one that OTL builds light/medium...

Your challenge, if you choose to accept it, is to make it so that British Astronauts land on the moon, and explain the ramifications of such a landing.

See this map, this is the go to map for most people looking for a map of a terraformed moon. This is probably not the most accurate map out there, but that's not important, what is important is our intentions. What I hope to accomplish with this thread is to create a "realistic" biome map of the...

Front of the Time Magazine July 20 2019. Headline, in big letters, 1969! 50 YEARS SINCE WE JOINED OUR SISTER IN THE SKY! "For all of human history, we have been looking to our moon, our sister in the sky, and wondered what was up there. We all know the familiar sight of that sphere of green and...

Is it possible that Apollo 11 could've had a different crew? If so, who are the most likely to replace Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin as the first men on the moon?

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...

In wake of recent successful landing of Chang'e 4, are there any earlier plans by either the USA or Russia/USSR to land a probe or even a man on the lunar far side?

Are there any good base maps for various places in our beautiful solar system? It would be great to have good maps of Ceres, Ganymede, Mercury, Pluto and other planets, dwarf planets and moons of our solar system. If there isn't already a place to share maps of our solar system, it would be nice...

I decided to create this thread because I like planets, space and the Universe, and think that some people might like it too. You can create and put here the planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies and other astronomical objects. Also you can invent civilizations, spaceships, etc.

How spaceflight works https://www.alternatehistory.com/wiki/doku.php?id=offtopic:the_space_jockeys Spaceflight has its own rules that makes it unique. They can be obscure at times. This is kind of guide to try and make things a little clearer. Hopefully not too pedantic nor too loaded with...