On the fictional side, Michael Dorman is Ed’s right-hand man, Gordo Stevens, and Sarah Jones is pilot-turned-housewife Tracy Stevens. Colm Feore plays Wernher von Braun, and actors also appear as Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and other famous real-life astronauts. Joel Kinnaman, the main astronaut and face of the series, plays made-up figure Edward Baldwin and Shantel Van Santen is his wife, Karen, while Chris Bauer’s Deke Slayton was an actual member of the Mercury 7 and heads up NASA’s astronaut training program in For All Mankind.
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The characters in the series are a mix of historical and fictional people. We’re not going to be second space to the Soviet Union anymore.’ And as a result, the history of the 20th century starts to shift in the show.” Now NASA’s given range: ‘Go for it, we want moon bases, and we want the whole thing. Those resources are dedicated toward the space program, and the competition with the Soviet Union moves to space. to space in every way - first satellite, first man, first woman, first lunar landing - “the administration goes all in on the space program. Now that the Soviets have beaten the U.S. What if we got the space program that we were all promised way back when? How would the world be different? How would it be different then? How would it be different today? How would it be different in the future?” “So this show explores the path not taken by the United States and by the world. We didn’t get that future that we were promised,” he said. “That was always sort of a broken dream of mine and I think it was a broken dream of a lot of people growing up in this country and around the world. His presentation set up the structure of the series - season one ends in 1974, while future seasons will focus on subsequent years in the development of the space program, eventually leading up to the present day and beyond - essentially an idealized version of the future and space travel that the Apollo program represented in the 1960s. In this alternate history, the Equal Rights Amendment never loses traction and the gender politics of the 1970s become even more revolutionary.Īhead of the on-set junket interviews, Moore addressed reporters seated in the series’ near-exact replica of Houston’s mission control. And while it’s a performative request at first - he wants to look good in the eyes of the rest of the world - the women in the program inspire not only a generation of young girls, but also the country.
This last event is what sparks President Richard Nixon to push NASA for a legitimate training program for female astronauts with the goal of sending at least one corn-fed American woman to the moon. prepares for Neil Armstrong’s first steps and the Soviets do something else revolutionary - land a woman on the moon. In those episodes, the aforementioned Soviet Lunar Landing happens the U.S. The first three episodes of the series, which is one of the service’s best-reviewed launches on critic aggregator sites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, debuted Nov.
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