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Chris Kraft looked thoughtfully at the young man sitting across from him. The retired NASA flight director had done enough television interviews after the end of the Apollo program to ignore the cameras, lights, and boom mics that were just out of frame. Rubbing his nose and adjusting his...

What it says on the tin, with a POD between 1900 and 1920, can you have a space race involving multiple parties (Nations or otherwise) Bonus points for- (the race spanning from 1950s to 1990s and ending with a landing on mars.) (the highest number of players)

Launching a new timeline here (hope the name isn't taken). I'll answer questions here and there as they come, but I'm hoping to tell the story, for the most part, through a series of short stories and let internal context clues do a good chunk of the heavy lifting. Still, I'll try not to leave...

As you probably know, the 50th and 60th years are considered an era of Soviet domination in the exploration of outer space. In particular, three events are most memorable: the launch of an artificial satellite, the flight of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin and the first lunar expedition of Alexei...

As you probably know, the 50th and 60th years are considered an era of Soviet domination in the exploration of outer space. In particular, three events are most memorable: the launch of an artificial satellite, the flight of Yuri Alekseevich Gagarin and the first lunar expedition of Alexei...

Prelude: Apollo 1 January 27, 1967, 6:24PM: Cape Kennedy Launch Complex 34 "Damn. Repeat Capcom?" A garbled, "We are p...on hol..." from Capcom came in reply. A third repetition finally revealed the message of, " We are putting the countdown on hold." "How are we going to get to the moon if...