Timeline

This is a timeline about this show in the universe with key events that happened.

1962

• September 10: John F. Kennedy, in a speech in Houston, promises to bring an American astronaut on the Moon within the decade.

1966 (possible POD)

• January 14: Sergei Korolev does not die while undergoing surgery. His survival allows for the possibility of the Soviet moon program securing the necessary funding to better test the N1 rocket. If conditions are just right, though unlikely, the door for a potential Soviet moon landing has now been left open.

1969

• January: Launch of a Soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 95% confidence).
• January 20th: Richard M. Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
• February 21: In OTL, the first launch of a Soviet unmanned N1 rocket fails. It was intended to launch a Zond for a lunar flyby, and test the rocket for future manned missions to the Moon.
• May: Apollo 10. Proceeds more or less as OTL but crew is Baldwin-Stevens-Talmadge instead of Stafford-Young-Cernan.
• June 20 (approximately): Launch of a Soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 80% confidence).
• June 26: The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon.
• July 2: Newsweek has a cover story on the Moon landing. In an interview, Edward Baldwin says "The NASA doesn't have guts anymore".
• July 3: In OTL, the second launch of a N1 rocket fails destroying the launch site. This stops the Soviet lunar program for three years, when two failures cause its cancellation.
• July 16: Apollo 11 launch. Proceeds more or less as OTL.
• July 18: Senator Ted Kennedy cancels his participation in a celebration party at Chappaquiddick Island and returns to Washington instead. In OTL, Kennedy has a car accident killing Mary Jo Kopechne and his chances to run for US President.
• July 20: Aleida and Octavio Rosales cross the border from Mexico to the USA. Almost at the same time, Apollo 11 reaches the Moon.
• July 21: Apollo 11 leaves the Moon.
• July 24: Apollo 11 returns on Earth.
• September: The second Soviet mission lands Anastasia Belikova, first woman on the Moon.
• October: Apollo 12 lands in Sinus Medii (in OTL this happens on November 14-24).

1970

• April: Apollo 13. Unlike OTL Apollo 13, there is no explosion. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise become sixth and seventh people on Moon.
• Early autumn: Apollo 14. The war in Vietnam has ended at an unspecified date and Nixon expects to run for reelection against Ted Kennedy.
• October: Unsuccessful Soviet moon landing attempt.
• October: Patty Doyle dies during a training exercise.
• October 27: NASA presents the first all female Astronaut Group. That same day Molly Cobb swaps Gordo Stevens as LM Pilot for Apollo 15.

1971

• October 18: Apollo 15 launches. Molly Cobb becomes the first American woman to launch to space.
• October 22: Apollo 15 lands at Shackleton crater. (After having decided to change their landing site in the search for water on the moon.) Molly Cobb becomes the second woman on the moon, and first American woman on the moon.
• October 25: Molly Cobb extracts ice from the bottom of the Shackleton crater.
• October 29: Apollo 15 splashes down.

1972

• April: Apollo 16.
• Summer: Apollo 17 launches
• November: Presidential election, Richard Nixon is defeated by Ted Kennedy by a wide margin.
• At his first State of the Union address, Ted Kennedy vows that the Soviet Union will not beat America to Mars as it did the Moon.
• Late in the year: Apollo 18.

1973

• Early 1973: Apollo 19.
• Mid-Summer 1973: Apollo 20
• The Space Shuttle and Sea Dragon programs are approved.
• October 12: Jamestown lands at the Shackleton crater. Near the Apollo 15 landing site.

1974

• Somewhen in 1974: First launch of Zvezda lunar base:N-1 transports cargo modules to Moon.
• Early 1974: Apollo 21 (also known as Jamestown 1) becomes the first crew of the Jamestown base.
• Mid 1974 : Apollo 22 (also known as Jamestown 2) launches and arrives at their lunar base. Relieves Apollo 21 crew.
• August 24: Apollo 23 fails to launch, due to an explosion at the launchpad. Gene Kranz dies as well as other 11 NASA staff at the launchpad. The crew survives barely. The Equal Rights Amendment is ratified as an amendment to the United States Constitution, when the state of Illinois becomes the 37th state to ratify.
• Late August: NASA starts a full investigation about the Apollo 23 explosion.
• Late August: Margo becomes Flight Director. She also starts to mentor Aleida.
• Late August: Ellen and Larry get married.
• Autumn: The Jamestown 2 crew suspects of Soviet activity near their base.
• Autumn: Gordo suffers psychologically from the prolonged duration of their mission. Danielle Poole deliberately breaks her arm to provide NASA an excuse to end the mission early.
• Autumn: Danielle Poole and Gordo Stevens return to earth, leaving Ed Baldwin behind.
• Autumn: Aleida wins a grand scholarship.
• Late November: Shane Baldwin suffers an accident, leaving him brain dead.
• Late November: Shane Baldwin dies.
• Early December: Mikhail Vasiliev begs Ed Baldwin to let him in Jamestown.
• Early December: Octavio Rosales is deported back to Mexico.
• December: Apollo 24 fails to complete a TLI burn.
• December: Apollo 25 , scheduled to repair a satellite in orbit, implied to be an early version of what would eventually be OTL’s Hubble Space Telescope, instead launches to repair Apollo 24's malfunctioning S-IVB stage. Harrison Liu, Deke Slayton and Molly Cobb perform an EVA to repair the S-IVB stage. The S-IVB stage fires unexpectedly killing Harrison Liu, injuring Deke Slayton and stranding Molly Cobb. Tracy Stevens rescues Molly Cobb, and Ellen drags Deke back to the capsule of Apollo 24.
• December: Ed and Mikhail prepare the LSAM-1 to help Apollo 24 arrive at the lunar surface.
• December: Ellen Waverly and Deke Slayton arrive at the moon. Deke dies later from internal bleeding.
• December: Ed returns back home alone, aboard the Apollo 24 Command Module. Ellen becomes the Commander of Jamestown.

1976

• After the Supreme Court rules in a 5-4 decision that partially-marked ballots from Ohio can be counted, Ronald Reagan receives 713 additional votes and narrowly wins the 1976 election, defeating incumbent Ted Kennedy.
• The Soviets launch the N3 Rocket, becoming "the largest rocket ever launched
• The Outer Space Treaty is dissolved.
• The United States' Hermes Lander, guided by the orbital observer Hyperion and enveloped in airbags to cushion its landing, touches down on Mars and becomes the first successful landing of a human spacecraft on the planet. The lander releases the robotic Sojourner rover which takes the first pictures of Mars' surface ever recorded by humanity.

1977

• First launch of the Sea Dragon from the Pacific Ocean, carrying over 1 million pounds of building supplies, equipment, and fuel for the Jamestown settlement and its mining operations. The Sea Dragon was the size of a small skyscraper and had a 75-foot diameter; its size required that it be constructed in the water using techniques traditionally reserved for freighters. Unlike previous rockets, almost all of Sea Dragon was re-usable for multiple missions.

1978

• The Camp David meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt is a failure.

1979

• Soviets withdraw from the Afghan border, related to the reprioritization of the space race.
• Three Mile Island faces a nuclear meltdown, but is prevented thanks to advanced technology being used for Jamestown
• November: President Reagan orders a surprise rescue mission of the American hostages held in Iran, successfully ending the crisis.

1980

• United States lose to the Soviet Union during an ice hockey match during the 1980 Olympics, with a score of 3-10
• December 8: Former Beatles member and superstar solo artist John Lennon survives an assassination attempt in New York City.
• Soviets expand Zvezda lunar base.

1981

• The US military flies its own Space Shuttle.
• Ronald Reagan refuses to bail out the Chrysler Corporation
• May 31: Pope John Paul II is assassinated in St. Peter's Square.

1982

• Berlin Crisis - Fire is exchanged in West Berlin after a East German tank pursues an East German couple attempting to flee East Berlin. Defense readiness is raised to DEFCON 4.

1983

• Ed and Karen discuss a live coverage from the South Pacific Ocean showing a sea launch of a rocket similar to the Sea Dragon carrying a plutonium payload for expansion of the Jamestown colony.
• NASA begins using Space Shuttles.
• An SRB for Challenger is found with a defect in its O-rings, which may cause the booster to explode if not taken care of
• May 21: A solar storm forces the crew of Jamestown to evacuate to safety. However two astronauts were exposed to high doses of solar radiation.
• An electric vehicle built with battery technology derived from NASA innovation, with a 60 mile range, is commercially available.
• The Soviet Union proposes a joint mission between their space program and the United States.
• Ed steps down as Chief of the Astronaut Office, letting Molly Cobb take his place.
• Korean Air flight 007 is shot down over Sakhalin Island on a flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, killing everyone on board
• The Soviets launch their own Space Shuttle, called Buran
• Pathfinder, America's next-generation shuttle, launches for its maiden voyage, on a mission to protect Sea Dragon 17
• Sea Dragon 17 explodes, and is blamed on faulty wiring, putting a stop to Sea Dragon production

1995

• By this year there is human presence on the planet of Mars.

Space missions

Designation	Date	Launch vehicle	CSM	LM	Crew	Summary	Episodes
xxx	January 1969	N1 (rocket)	N/A	N/A		Test flight of N1 (possibly manned)	1
Apollo 10	1969	Saturn V	Charlie Brown	Snoopy	Edward Baldwin Gordo Stevens Fred Talmadge	Trial run for Lunar landing	1, 2
xxx	June 1969	N1 (rocket)	N/A	N/A		Test flight of N1 (possibly manned)	1
xxx	June 26, 1969	N1	Soyuz 7K-LOK	LK (spacecraft)	Alexei Leonov	1st human landing on the Moon	1
Apollo 11	July 20, 1969	Saturn V	Columbia	Eagle	Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins	1st US human Lunar landing	1, 2
xxx	September 1969	N1	Soyuz 7K-LOK	LK (spacecraft)	Anastasia Belikova	1st woman on the Moon	2
Apollo 12	September 19, 1969	Saturn V	Yankee Clipper	Intrepid	Pete Conrad Alan Bean Dick Gordon	Scouting for US Lunar base site	2
xxx		N1	Soyuz 7K-LOK	LK (spacecraft)		Crash lands on the Moon. Unnamed cosmonaut killed.	4
Apollo 15	October 1971	Saturn V	Endeavour	Seahawk	Edward Baldwin Molly Cobb Frank Sedgewick	First US woman on the Moon	4, 5
Apollo 18		Saturn V			Gordo Stevens Danielle Poole (...)	.	5
Apollo 19		Saturn V			Ellen Waverly Harrison Liu (...)	.	8
Jamestown	October 1973	Saturn V			Unmanned	First Lunar Base (lands October 12 1973)	5
Apollo 21/ Jamestown 1	1973	Saturn V			Molly Cobb Robert Crippen Joe Engle	First crewed mission to Jamestown	5
Apollo 22/ Jamestown 2		Saturn V	Excalibur		Edward Baldwin Gordo Stevens Danielle Poole	Jamestown crew rotation. Poole and Stevens return in December 1974, leaving Edward Baldwin alone in Jamestown	6, 7, 8
Apollo 23	August 24, 1974	Saturn V			Michael Collins (...) (...)	Jamestown crew rotation. Saturn V explodes on pad, killing 12, Apollo CM is jettisoned and crew suffers injuries	6
Zvezda	1974	N1			N/A	First Soviet Lunar Base Crew of three	6
Apollo 24		Saturn V	Osprey		Ellen Waverly Harrison Liu Deke Slayton	Jamestown crew rotation.	6, 8, 9
Apollo 25		Saturn IB			Molly Cobb Tracy Stevens Dennis Lambert	Originally a repair of a satellite in Earth orbit - duration 14 days Repair of S-IVB of Apollo 24	5, 6, 8, 9
Sea Dragon 1	1977	Sea Dragon			N/A	First launch of the Sea Dragon rocket Jamestown Base Expansion	10
Jamestown 36	Late 70s	1st Gen Space Shuttle	Columbia		Cook Diaz Foster Sanders White
Skylab 12	Late 70s, Early 80s	1st Gen Space Shuttle	Atlantis		Washington Johnson Allen
Skylab 19	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Doreen Campbell Ricci Smith Stewart Wagner		11
Jamestown 81	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle	Columbia		Ellen Wilson Young Murphy Lee Walker		11
Jamestown 82	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Allen Harris Heikkinen Stewart
Jamestown 83	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Molly Cobb Miller Rodriguez Cartwright
Jamestown 84	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Davis Johnson Wubbo Ockels Steve Pomepanz Taylor
Jamestown 85	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Garcia Hayes Reed Powell
Jamestown 86	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Howard Kouri Alex Rossi Tremblay Williams
Jamestown 87	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Foster Jones Peterson Price
Jamestown 88	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Nick Corrado James Petersen Tuzell
Jamestown 89	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle	Discovery		Cook Paul DeWeese Tracy Stevens Rogers		14
Moon Marines	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Vance Paulson Helena Webster Charles Bernitz Steve Lopez Jason Wilhelm		15
Sea Dragon 16	1983	Sea Dragon				Phase III Jamestown Expansion	10, 16
Jamestown 90	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle			Dubois Jacobs DeLeon O'Brien Smith
STS-83-R/ Jamestown 91	1983	1st Gen Space Shuttle	Columbia		Bishop Gatos Gordo Stevens Tremblay White		18
XXX	1983	1st Soviet Space Shuttle	Buran			Blockade of the Moon	19, 20
Sea Dragon 17	1983	Sea Dragon					19, 20
Pathfinder	1983	2nd Gen Space Shuttle	Pathfinder OV-201		Edward Baldwin Gary Piscotty Sally Ride		19, 20
Soyuz-Apollo	1983	Soyuz			Stepan Alexseev Radislav Orlov		19, 20
Apollo 75 Apollo-Soyuz	1983	Saturn 1B			Danielle Poole Nathan Morrison		19, 20