space

Front of the Time Magazine July 20 2019. Headline, in big letters, 1969! 50 YEARS SINCE WE JOINED OUR SISTER IN THE SKY! "For all of human history, we have been looking to our moon, our sister in the sky, and wondered what was up there. We all know the familiar sight of that sphere of green and...

Heres an interesting question; what if the oxygen tanks weren't stirred until after the CSM/LEM had entered Lunar orbit? There are two scenarios here: Scenario 1: The CSM explodes before the landing is attempted. This one is fairly simple and boils down to whether or not the LEM had enough ∆V...

So I believe the post-Columbia procedure for all flights but the two Hubble Missions was to essentially abort to the ISS if heatshield damage was detected. What I'm curious about is what would happen to the orbiter and astronauts in such a scenario. Would they keep the orbiter attached to the...

With a post-1900 PoD make the Soviet space program to successfully send a space probe to either Mercury or the outer planets.

Would USS Lake Champlain be still the prime recovery ship had Freedom 7 went up earlier on March 24?

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.

So, my challenge here is rather simple, basically what it says on the tin. Here's the specific conditions: - POD in 1901 or later - I'm specifically looking at the total off-world population in 2018, and the number of nations with space colonies - Mäps give extra points, either of Earth or of...

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...

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...

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...