space

British plan to send in man in space with a converted V-2 rocket could happen as early as 1951 if it was approved, so who would become the first astronaut in that program?

Not sure where this belongs but I saw "Graphics", so here goes. A lot of the stuff I intend to post in here are snippets from a Space Opera/AH timeline I'm working on but there will be all sorts of random stuff. To start off with, one of my favourites. (Corner Infobox Text) Pictured below...

OK, another argument my friend and I had together is over Spaceflight in Nazi Germany. Assuming they won ww2, how advanced would spaceflight realistically be? Since the 'modern day' of this TL is 1998 (it's for a HOI4 Mod), 20 years ahead would be modern Falcon 9s and SLS rockets. My friend...

Hello, everyone! Welcome to yet-another @e of pi spaceflight thread. This one is going to be a bit of an experiment for me--a bit more personal, and focused on a much most recent point of departure. In fact, as everything in this timeline will be happening within the era of the "modern"...

Rockwell Flyer: The Story of the X-33 and Beyond American Rocket News January 2, 2006 Written by Arnold Holmes With the start of Congressional hearings on the factors relating to the decisions involved in the Exploration Systems Architecture, we here at American Rocket News feel it is...

What locations around the world (Earth specifically) could have plausibly become space ports? Ideally not just one off pads, but at least a few launches, in use for at least a few years, with some associated permanent jobs and infrastructure. Cape Agulhas, South Africa, southernmost point of...

Good evening, everyone! I know it's been a little while since @Polish Eagle and I finished writing Right Side Up (and we're both pleased to thank everyone who offered their votes at the Turtledoves this year). That said, I'm proud to present the following, which is something of a spiritual...

“The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.”-Robert Goddard I: Setting the Stage For NASA, the mid-1970s had represented a lessening of the activities and work that it had once been in the 1960s in the push of the Space Race. No longer was NASA constantly...

How do you think would it be possible to have more space infrastructure, possibly more frequent manned space missions, or even a rotating space station, or Moon or Mars bases today with the earliest PoD of 1945? In essence in this TL, much of the hopes for a "space future" as imagined by people...

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...

I have off-and-on considered the idea of an earlier space race, which has manifested itself in two main iterations I wish to call The Cosmos in Their Hearts. The main problem is that I simply cannot be creative enough to imagine how the ideas I have would effect wars and borders and countries...

Although mildly obscure to the modern-day folk, the major fundamentals of space travel arose due to the Exploration of Outer Space by Means of Rocket Devices ("Исследование мировых пространств реактивными приборами"), written by the Father of Space-Rocketry, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. This work...

With no PoDs prior to 1904,* what is the earliest that an aircraft could break the sound barrier? What is the earliest that ramjet technology could be developed? And this being done, how early could TTL see the first serious** designs for a scramjet plane? *or 1895 at the earliest, if you want...

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...

On Wikipedia I read that the Vanguard TV3 satellite was originally planned to be launched on September 1957, but countless delays forced it to be postponed to December culminating in its Kaputnik embarassment. Let's suppose that in an alternate timeline most of the problems for the Vanguard...

Hey everyone! This is something that's been rolling around in my head for a while now and I can't find enough info on my own so I'm coming to you... Would it be conceivable during the Carter administration of the late 1970's that in order to earn some income for NASA (and perhaps for a...

Chris Kraft looked thoughtfully at the young man sitting across from him. The retired NASA flight director had done enough television interviews after the end of the Apollo program to ignore the cameras, lights, and boom mics that were just out of frame. Rubbing his nose and adjusting his...

Launching a new timeline here (hope the name isn't taken). I'll answer questions here and there as they come, but I'm hoping to tell the story, for the most part, through a series of short stories and let internal context clues do a good chunk of the heavy lifting. Still, I'll try not to leave...

This is a story that I posted a few months ago on my blog "Unrealized Reality." It's a short story that references the idea of using an X-24 as a building block concept to the space shuttle. I used some ideas from David Portree's blog (tried to fit it into his Imagining Another Apollo...