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No ASB, and keep the POD after 1900. By the end, have humans walking on Mars by the year 2019. They don’t have to stay long, just a quick walk around is fine.

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?

If Nixon won 1960, how would the space race go? Does the US still land on the moon? Do the Soviets get there first? What year would the first lunar mission be? How does NASA develop under Nixon being the 35th President?

I don't know how much truth about the Meeting between Nichelle Nichols and Martin Luthur King Jr. Really influence her to staying on Star Trek but the idea comes what if King or Nichols missed the NAACP meeting for some reason and she left the role of Lt. Uhura after the first season to go back...

Since the early years of this century, NASA has been struggling to turn Shuttle-derived hardware into a heavy lift vehicle. It hasn't gone well. Underfunding, politically imposed design decisions and a lack of a clear purpose has resulted in a slow-motion disaster which looks bound to deliver...

With no PoDs prior to the Apollo 11 mission in 1969, how can we have a manned base on the moon, or the start of one, within the next 50 years or as soon as possible?

John Young once said a Return to Launch Site abort would require a string of miracles interspersed by acts of God. What if, on STS-51L the crew of the Challenger some how realized there was a problem with the SRB, separated from the stack and attempted to either ditch or return to the launch...

NASA's Waterloo October 2, 1983 Kennedy Space Center A crowd had gathered at Kennedy Space Center, larger than any seen since 1969. They cheered as the countdown timer approached the final minute. Miles away, on the pad, a white and black rocket glistened on the pad. Though larger, and more...

IOTL, President Richard Nixon discontinued the Apollo Program and approved the development of what would become the Space Shuttle. However, assuming that Bobby Kennedy either enters the presidential race earlier or survives his assassination, and goes on to win both the primary and the general...

What happened to Bold They Rise? My ideas for that ran out for now. But it isn’t dead. What’s this one about? OBL gets killed in ‘85. A host of changes follows,because butterflies. Buran,eh? This TL is inspired by The Snow Flies, and I had a PM conversation with Nixonshead about...

What if NASA's Pioneer I became the first object to reach the Moon and beyond instead of USSR's Luna 1? Share your thoughts on this here.

___________________________________ Less than seven years ago he was ridiculed for his confused statement on Mars. Less than four years ago he was still though to be a joke. Less than two years ago he was still thought to be powerless. But everything was changing. Now he had the opportunity...

Not including test articles, NASA purchased 15 Saturn V's for the Apollo Program. [SA-500-515]. My question is what would it take for NASA to secure a second production run of Saturn V's for a potential space station program in the 70's and 80's?

Suppose that Alan Shepard became the first man in space in March 24th of 1961 but Yuri Gagarin overshadows him by being the first to go into orbit on April 12nd. Would the nicknames like "Columbus of the Cosmos" or "Columbus of the space age" still goes to Gagarin, or would he received other...

Pioneer P-1 was set to launch late September 1959, but before it could the rocket launcher without the payload exploded on pad during pre-flight tests. http://space.skyrocket.de/doc_sdat/pioneer_p1.htm Suppose in another TL where the failure never happened and P-1 was launched mere days before...

So I've been kicking around an idea for a timeline--it'll be ASB, as it involves scientists spotting a quasar that'll fuck the solar system up in 130 years (incidentally, it'd be nice to know how long these scientists would need to be observing it to make that determination)--involving Clinton...

This is sort of an AHC/WI/PC combination, or a more general discussion. How plausible would it be for at least two and possibly even three space shuttles to be irreparably damaged in some sort of covert terror attack (I don't know much about bombs, but some sort of planted firebombing, or...

The Final Frontier: History of Alternate Space Race "To break the final frontier of humanity, to explore space, to pursue greater goal of a prosperity and progress. To take a step where no one walked, to improve our knowledge." [* ]Chapters are written from the perspective of described...

Over in the "Carter lets the Space Shuttle die" thread the conversation has been drifting towards a more general discussion on alternate space shuttles. So here's a new thread for alternate space shuttles, I'm especially interested in what kind of alternatives would be possible with a PoD AFTER...

Would Vostok 1's mission patch stays as same as OTL's if American astronaut Alan Shepard became the first man in space, instead of Gagarin?