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1965: An astonished World watches as Sovjet cosmonauts land on the moon, and plans are announched to the world that the USSR plans to begin construction of a space station both in orbit and on the moon. The United States and Britain protests this action at the UN, but the Sovjet UN representative dismisses the Western complaints are pure capitalist propaganda.

The oribiting space station called Peace is finished in 1968 and two years later the permanent planet based station red october become operational.

Meanwhile insteed of civilian space program under NASA as known in our timeline, the US Space Program is a millitary one controlled by the pentagon.

Meanwhile in 1966 MIT scientist Carl Ludwieg Svenson a brilliant physicist constructs the first and very powerfull iondrive-engine which could be used to bring America into the Cosmos.
in 1968 unknown to the USSR, President Lyndon B. Johnson orders the creation of the first space division of USMC later known as the USSM which sole purpose is to defend the United States from attack from Communist presence on the moon. And eventuelly liberate the moon.

What will see first? A race for Mars? Or an American attack on the moon around 1980?

What do you guys say?

/Fred
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