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Path to the Stars Part 1 Ever since both the Soviet Union and the US had set the goal to launch a satellite in the 1957-1958 International Geophysical Year, the countries had been putting money and effort into that goal. The USA left the goal to the Navy and the Army, Whilst the Soviet Union...

Beauty Before Bedlam The End of the Cold War and the New Age of Aquarius January 1st, 1993 | Sixty-two days before the Greenville Convention This is a timeline based on the aftermath of a nuclear-armed Cold War between two competing blocs of nations: the Federation and the Alliance. The...

I've always liked the concept of the Soviet Transportnyi Korabl’ Snabzheniia (TKS) spacecraft which was made up of the Vozvraschaemyi Apparat (VA) crew capsule linked via a tunnel to the Funktsionalno-Gruzovoy Blok (FGB) module. With the FGB having inbuilt solar panels, radiators, fuel tanks and...

EDIT: I have updated and reposted this post, and it is viewable just slightly further down in the thread.

In a parallel universe, the country of Hatsunia (初音国) had taken a very different path compared to Japan, a similar country in our universe. Instead of hundreds of years of feudal isolation, the society became used to foreign contact and social reform. Unlike Japan, its international relations in...

Some of you may remember that "European Confederation" graphic i posted in the map thread, well it happens to be a part of this timeline. This timeline is more or less, a weird combination of Alt-History and Future History, as it has PoD in the 1960s, but the actual canon goes far beyond the...

Basic PODs 1. Glenn doesn't injure himself in 1964 and goes on to win the Ohio Senate Election 2. Glenn's speech at the DNC is better received 3. Carter chooses Glenn as his running mate due to the above-mentioned reason 4. The Iran-Contra Affair is much more damaging to Reagan and Bush 5. The...

For example in OTL, the 1960s saw huge advancements in both technological and social arenas, which made things like the Moon Landing and Woodstock possible. The early 70s were okay-ish, but later things started getting worse and the last progressive product of this rapidly advancing...

The rise of the Russian space station program, the area where the Soviet then Russian government would stay ahead of the west until 2014, started with a treason in 1960. While Gagarin was climbing into space, paving the way for mankind to follow, Chelomei was planning to militarize this feat...

Here’s an interesting timeline idea that I whipped up in a few hours: 1966.2.19 The Americans had known that the British were up to something. Seven months earlier they had gotten reports that an some sort of secret development project was happening in England, but they didn’t know what it...

A question for the space buffs here; what if there are more countries participating in the ISS? China is barred from participating due to a US congress act in 2011, but it had previously expressed interest. Being perhaps the third or fourth largest space player right now, its participation...

Let's discusse ways of getting Dr. Zubrin as NASA Administrator and getting his goals achieved: Mars Direct starting between 1990 and 2000, nuclear spaceships, and so on. Are there ATLs here where Dr. Zubrin gets the job and his goals achieved?

15th December, 1960 A man walks silently through the cold, bitter halls of the Kremlin, fingers trembling in the cold. Inside, his mind burns with ideas, cursing the engineers who defy him, the assistants that conspire to usurp his position, his competitors in the military. Twelve days ago, he...

Here is something from October 2016: As you can guess Mr. Degtyarev statement was met with much jokes on the Eastern European side of the internet. At the same time, it isn’t as silly as it first appears as Ukraine does have a space-rocket industry (albeit one that OTL builds light/medium...

I just want to make some extra maps :) THESE MAPS ARE NOT TO SCALE

Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to make it so that the Soviet Union lands on the moon after the United States in 1969, and to explain the ramifications of them doing so.

Exactly what it says on the tin. Can a BIS Moonship conduct a manned Lunar landing before July 20th, 1969? Personally I think it’s possible, but then I am a member of BIS, so I may be a bit biased. For those of you who don’t know exactly what I’m talking about, here are some articles about the...

What it says on the tin. Starting in 1903ish, what can a rocket program (started for whatever reason) do with a modest but steady amount of funding? What can they get done by 1910? 1920? 1930? 1940?

What countries would be involved in a space race assuming no WWII? I know such a POD changes everything, but let's speculate that the Nazis either don't take power in Germany or it's a short dictatorship that fizzles out. There are conflicts, but not a total war involving the world's powers. By...

This timeline can also be found on Sufficient Velocity. STS-27 Commander Howard “Skip” Johnson was the first to speak up. “We’re in deep shit.” The rest of the crew of Space Shuttle Atlantis were in agreement. On the second day of mission STS-27, December 3rd 1988, an unusual request was...