space race

So what is this?: Well like the title suggests this is initial planning faze for a timeline I've had in the back of my head for nearly a year now. What's it about?: The main theme is about alternate technological development and how the earlier development of certain technologies would effect...

Hello everyone! I've wanted to do a spaceflight timeline for a while now, and have been kicking around a bunch of ideas for what to do one on. I also have known that I want any spaceflight timeline I make to be pretty high quality. This is a large part of why I decided to just start writing...

So let’s say that Nixon didn’t have a bout of fever, laid off of the chocolate milk, and had a shave ahead of the debate with Kennedy and comes off better than IOTL. Whatever is the most plausible POD, Richard Nixon is elected President in 1960. What kind of foreign policy would President Nixon...

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?

IOTL we usually view the space race through the prism of the cold war, but what would the space race look like in a no world wars TL? Would the space race be greatly delayed without the technological developments from the world wars or without the cold war rivalry to drive it? How delayed would...

The Final Push - November 1, 1945 “Quite fitting to the time of Halloween, the invasion of the Japanese homeland officially began this week. 630,000 US military personnel are operating on or near the tropical beaches of Kyushu, fighting in conditions absolutely never seen in the Pacific...

Let us suppose that the Soviet Union, for a POD of your preference (Sergei Korolev does not die? Vasily Mishin is not chosen as his successor? The URSS take the Space race more seriously from the beginning? Choose the one you like more) manages to beat the United States to the moon, forever...

https://www.history.com/topics/space-exploration/moon-landing-1969 Seeing as the Moon landing is coming up in a few weeks (about 18 more days if I recall) I had an idea for an alt-history. What if instead of placing a US flag on the Moon, Neil Armstrong plants a United Nations flag. Would this...

According to Wikipedia: Singer was one of the first scientists to urge the launching of earth satellites for scientific observation during the 1950s.[20] In 1951 or 1952 he proposed the MOUSE ("Minimal Orbital Unmanned Satellite, Earth"), a 100 pounds (45 kg) satellite that would contain Geiger...

Ronald D. Moore is back, This time for Apple new Streaming TV service and he bring Space Race and Alternate History Together in "For All Mankind" or What If the Soviet landed on Moon... First ?

Plausibility check: X-15 being the first spacecraft to carry human in space, preferably in 1960-1961.

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’m wondering if this scenario has ever been explored. It’s rather utopian. I’d appreciate if anyone would like to brainstorm with me or even make this into a timeline. I’ll consider anything that comes out of this thread as a collaborative effort. The world this is for has already seen major...

In 1963, US President John F. Kennedy proposed a joint US-Soviet moon mission to the UN, to subvert the costs of the US Space Program as well as help thaw relations. Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko applauded and supported Kennedy's speech, saying that it was a "good sign", and recent evidence...

A/N: This is my first attempt at a serious timeline. All comments, suggestions, and critiques are welcome. Chapter 1: It was the spring of 1955, and planning for the upcoming International Geophysical Year was in full swing. President Eisenhower had just ordered the formation of a committee to...

On July 20 1969 the United States of America landed the first manned mission on the surface of the moon and in so doing winning the space race. After that all manned missions have been done in LEO (Low Earth Orbit) but what if the space race continued. How would a much longer space race have...

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...

On March 24th 1961 NASA's astronaut Alan Shepard became the first man in space when he rode Freedom 7 into space. The trip was reportedly a bumpy one with vibrations reported during the flight which I can't but think of a momentous decision made after the flight of Ham on January 31st. During...

Deborah Gadbury's book about the space race said that an angry Polish maid planned to kill von Braun and his team during their stay at a cottage in American occupied zone with gun but foiled by an observant American soldier. What might happen had the Polish got his way?