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First to set up the players. French Empire- After a more successful OTL campaign Napoleon I rules victoriously over Europe in 1814. The empire transitions into a constitutional monarchy around the mid-19th century and maintains a decent hold over western and central Europe up to the the 1950's...

December 19th, 1985 - Magellan Strait "Warzone Charli" Trenches have been set in the surroundings of the city of Punta Arenas, near the town of "tres puentes" north of the city there is constant fire between infantry, several companies have tried to advance, only to be met with astonishing...

When Project Apollo was first considered by NASA in 1960, it was going to be the follow-up to Project Mercury. The program was a lot less grandiose than what we eventually got. Apollo would start with missions similar to those flown during Gemini such as long-duration spaceflight, spacewalks...

If Richard Nixon defeated JFK in the election of 1960, what effect would his administration have on the Space Race? Would there still be an Apollo Program, or perhaps an alternate Moon program? Would he even give NASA the funds for a Moonshot at all? The Soviets certainly weren't gonna stop...

Welcome, everyone, to Glorious Dawn! This is an Alternate Spaceflight Timeline which should hopefully be factoring in the political landscape of the respective times, To keep everything as accurate as possible. If you see any historical inaccuracies don't be afraid to let me know, I'll try to...

Alright! Hello! The following is the hyper-evolved headcanon for a replica shuttle program I started work on 4-5-ish years ago in KSP that I realized about 3 months ago I could turn into an objectively banger alternate history with a strangely low amount of effort. That being said, I have 3...

I noticed that there wasn't a thread for maps based off of just existing objects. The Alternate Planets, Suns, Stars, and Solar Systems Thread is mostly OC content and the Map Threads are congested and hard to navigate. This thread will act as the main place to post alongside the latter and will...

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...

Part 0 | Pre-Launch this is my first scenario so please be gentle "You know, if the Shuttle is like a bus, us moving forward without a station in orbit is like a bus with only one stop. I don't see a point to us having a bus with one stop." That is (supposedly) what an unknown engineer said to...

Post 0: Introduction Reading about the history of spaceflight, Gemini stands out as an odd duck. It is a program which post-dates the approval of Apollo as a three-person capsule, and was initially supposed to be a minor upgrade to Mercury. Even the addition of a second seat was something its...

The space shuttle was intended to provide reliable and inexpensive access to space, however, it failed miserably, being even more expensive than expendable systems, as well as being the deadliest space launch system in history. From Wikipedia: What if the shuttle was developed in a way that...

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...

Hi everyone! Today I wanted to bring to you a story inspired by my musings of Mars, and the nostalgia for the iconic Space Shuttle. It has been 10 years this year since the shuttle stopped flying, and I have not been able to stop thinking; what else could we have done? What if the Shuttle had...

"For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness. What new wonders undreamt of in our time, will we have wrought in another generation, and another? How far will our nomadic species have wandered, by the end of the next century, and the next...

Path to the Stars Part 1 Ever since both the Soviet Union and the US had set the goal to launch a satellite in the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year, the countries had been putting money and effort into that goal. The USA left the goal to the Navy and the Army, Whilst the Soviet Union...

Beauty Before Bedlam The End of the Cold War and the New Age of Aquarius January 1st, 1993 | Sixty-two days before the Greenville Convention This is a timeline based on the aftermath of a nuclear-armed Cold War between two competing blocs of nations: the Federation and the Alliance. The...

I've always liked the concept of the Soviet Transportnyi Korabl’ Snabzheniia (TKS) spacecraft which was made up of the Vozvraschaemyi Apparat (VA) crew capsule linked via a tunnel to the Funktsionalno-Gruzovoy Blok (FGB) module. With the FGB having inbuilt solar panels, radiators, fuel tanks and...

EDIT: I have updated and reposted this post, and it is viewable just slightly further down in the thread.

In a parallel universe, the country of Hatsunia (初音国) had taken a very different path compared to Japan, a similar country in our universe. Instead of hundreds of years of feudal isolation, the society became used to foreign contact and social reform. Unlike Japan, its international relations in...

Some of you may remember that "European Confederation" graphic i posted in the map thread, well it happens to be a part of this timeline. This timeline is more or less, a weird combination of Alt-History and Future History, as it has PoD in the 1960s, but the actual canon goes far beyond the...