OTL Shuttle? OTL Shuttle...to the Moon? Why? Why any of this?
Could be just some kind of art shot, like that scene in ‘From the Earth to the Moon’ where the first episode closes on Gemini-Agena pointed at the Moon while Buzz Aldrin straddles it. Payload bay doors are closed in the shot, so it might be during a launch.
Still begs the question of ‘why.’ We saw Sea Dragon, so why would the US develop both the OTL Shuttle and SD?
Hate to say it (since season 1, though flawed, had so much potential), but it looks like they’re going to favor geopolitical tensions over any kind of realistic space development.
EDIT: I know that describes a lot of season 1 too, but consider the tone shift—we’ve gone from Gene Kranz saying ‘Moon, Mars, asteroids, stars, etc’ to ‘astronauts with M4 rifles for some stupid reason.’
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