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“Those were a tough couple of months. I say months - it felt more like a couple years. And just a lot of long nights. You can ask my husband, he’s getting ready for bed and I’m still at my desk, writing emails… “We were nervous, all of us were. It was like a big anvil cloud hanging over...

[ KINETIC: The Battle Above ] Chapter 0 - Foreword Hello everybody! I’d love to share with you this world I’ve put a lot of care and love into. I’ve thought of releasing something of this caliber for a while now so here is my first ever timeline to the forums! I’m very excited to hear what you...

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...

What would happen if the Seadragon was built and used during the 1960's and 1970's. How would it change the history of the space race and space exploration?

What it says on the tin. Starting in 1903ish, what can a rocket program (started for whatever reason) do with a modest but steady amount of funding? What can they get done by 1910? 1920? 1930? 1940?

What if the 1995 Norwegian Rocket Incident escalated into a nuclear war? Yeah and this does sound ASB but what if Boris Yeltsin was drunk or really terrified of the incident and actually took orders to fire nuclear weapons, boom civilization is kinda nearly dead?

While the Canadian Armament Research and Development Establishment (CARDE) was developping anti-balistic missile system in the 1950, they created a propulsion test rocket that ended up as the base for the Black Brant sounding rocket, one of the most used. Could there be a way for Canada to...

The challenge is instead of an Operation Paperclip or recruited by Soviet or even Nasser's Egypt, most of German scientists who worked in Peenemunde facility in Second World War for the Third Reich move to newly-founded Republic of Indonesia and able to jumpstart a genuine space program. What...