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The Selene Project
An alternate spaceflight timeline by sts-200. You can read the timeline here.
It follows the prologue/prequel Quaerere Caelis (recommended to be read first, as a prologue). The timeline itself is followed by a sequel work, To Grasp the Heavens.
Premise and POD
The alternate history of a pre-ESA European space programme, centered on French and UK efforts. The main goal for project Selene becomes a European Moonshot (with a lunar landing planned for the early 1970s).
Chapters
4: Turning Swords into Ploughshares (Part 1)
5: Turning Swords into Ploughshares (Part 2)
7: Rockets are Supposed to Go Up
10: Whittling back the Options
11: From "What If" to "We Shall"
13: Threading a Camel through the Eye of a Needle – At Mach 25
14: The White Heat of Technology
16: Late, Underpowered and Overweight
18: Problems and Opportunities
19: The First Hints of Discord
21: A Piece of Land Surrounded by Dollars
24: A Step Forward and A Step Back
27: To Geostationary and Beyond
29: The Man Who Makes the Machines
41: The Cost of Penny-Pinching
47: The Day the World Looked Small
57: What... has the World ended?