Bold They Rise:Spaceflight from 1976 to the Present

:The 1981 and 1982 films Star Trek 2:Guardian of the Past (2),Starflight,The Ark Principle,and Moon 0-2
:And in 1983 and 1984, Star Trek 3:The Voyage Home, Stellar Journey,Dominator (based on the 1981 book),Starfall (3),Starraker (4),and the lead-in to Star Trek 4:The Final Frontier


Some question about these films
I understand what your doing with the Star Trek films although I never seen anything that indicates that Clark had any thing to do with the idea for Guardian of the Past.

But more information on
Starflight
The Ark Principle
Moon 0-2
And Stellar Journey would be nice.
 
And what was different enough about Moonraker that the Bond Filmmakers considered a sequel?

And your foot note on Starfall says it based on a 1976 novel.
Who was the author?
A web search shows a large number of novel named Starfall but I did not see on from 1976.
 
:The 1981 and 1982 films Star Trek 2:Guardian of the Past (2),Starflight,The Ark Principle,and Moon 0-2
:And in 1983 and 1984, Star Trek 3:The Voyage Home, Stellar Journey,Dominator (based on the 1981 book),Starfall (3),Starraker (4),and the lead-in to Star Trek 4:The Final Frontier


Some question about these films
I understand what your doing with the Star Trek films although I never seen anything that indicates that Clark had any thing to do with the idea for Guardian of the Past.

But more information on
Starflight
The Ark Principle
Moon 0-2
And Stellar Journey would be nice.

Starflight-actually an OTL film called Starflight:The Plane That Couldn't Land. A new hypersonic airliner gets stuck in orbit after a propulsion mishap. Space Shuttles are used to rescue the crew.

Moon 02-schlocky remake of a similar film from 1970 involving moon mining.

The Ark Principle-a flood threatens to overwhelm the world and the US and USSR send out competing space arks.

Stellar Journey-sort of an '80s Firefly,set onboard a hijacked FTL passenger liner.
 
And what was different enough about Moonraker that the Bond Filmmakers considered a sequel?

And your foot note on Starfall says it based on a 1976 novel.
Who was the author?
A web search shows a large number of novel named Starfall but I did not see on from 1976.

I believe it was by a man named Henry Harrison. The plot involves the failed launch of a space-based solar power station.
 
Chronology:October 1978-April 1979
October 1978
Skylab is reactivated temporarily. ESA starts studies of an advanced Ariane booster.

November-December 1978
Alexei Kosygin announces the formation of the Slavic Compact,an economic adjunct to the Warsaw Pact that will regulate the Soviet economy and allow for limited privatization. In midterm elections,the Democrats sweep the Senate. First launch of Ariane 1 on November 19. In December,the Pioneer Venus and Venera 11/12 probes arrive at Venus. An engine error prevents Venera 11 from attaining Venusian orbit,but Venera 12 enters orbit. Their respective landers transmit Venusian atmospheric,weather and surface data. Progress 3 is dispatched to Salyut 6 on December 21.

January-Februrary 1979
The third Salyut 6 expedition,with cosmonauts Vladimir Kovalenok and Gennady Strekalov. The first production External Tank reaches KSC. On January 24,the Skylab Deorbit Agena is launched atop a Delta 3914,reaching Skylab the next day. Skylab deorbit is planned for May 1. The FTNG astronaut group graduates to training on February 12.

March-April 1979
Voyager 1 flies past Jupiter on March 5:after its flyby,the Jovian moon Io is revealed to have active volcanoes. Photopolarimeter data suggests the possibility of a salt ocean below the Jovian moon Europa. The Soyuz 31 mission to Salyut 6 just before Easter is comprised of Leonid Popov and Georgi Ivanov-Kakalov,who spend a week on Salyut 6. Assembly of Salyut 8 (the Mir core) is completed (Salyut 7 was completed early in 1977).
 
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Space news of May and June 1979
Skylab was successfully deorbited on May 16. The reentry took place over the NASA tracking station on Ascension Island.

During May and June,Columbia was checked over in the Orbiter Processing Facility. The first Shuttle launch remains on target for November 28,1980. Crew members John Young and Robert Overmyer are into the second part of their training cycle,ascent and entry simulations. Challenger,Discovery,Enterprise,and Atlantis are all in various stages of preparation.

The Voyager 2 and Pioneer 11 missions have the spotlight as they approach Jupiter (July 9) and Saturn (September 1) flybys. Data from Voyager 1 is being studied by scientists the world over as it is targeted for its Saturn flyby on November 12,1980. Voyager 2 will fly by Saturn on August 25,1981:a decision regarding an extended mission to fly by Uranus and Neptune has yet to be taken.

The Salyut 6 crew welcomed the Soyuz T-1 crew on June 10. Cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Yuri Ponomarov flew this short visiting mission to test out the newest Soyuz variant.
 
Announcement
So this timeline has been dead for some time,because I wanted to focus on my other works. This timeline was written when I was a novice to the subject of alternate history (you might say I still am).

So today I announce that at some point there will appear a rebooted version of this story,with a POD of around 1970. I’m taking inspiration from YouTuber Kevin Gustafson’s KSP videos featuring an International Skylab,which will appear in the reboot. It will be a while before this appears,but be patient with me if you can.

One feature of this version I’m ditching is the chronology posts. The TL will instead be in the style of my current TL ‘A 21st century future’.

Thank you for your time,
Kloka.
 
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