Re:Just another Apollo? Part two (2005)
by philistine on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:02PM
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The N1, in our real world, was never crewed. The last ditch Soviet launch you're talking about was a test.
For All Mankind to have a successful Soviet Moon landing, things happened differently before that launch. I thought the show would be interested in exploring what those things are, but it never was the case. As for OP, presumably they're talking about Vladimir Komarov: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_Komarov
His death during Soyuz 1, the first space casualty, could perhaps be a hinge between our universe and For All Mankind.
Re:Just another Apollo? Part two (2005)
by mannerheim on Tuesday June 14, 2022 @12:09PM
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Sergei Korolev[0], chief architect of the N1 rocket[1] which never really made it off the ground. I believe the show mentions him surviving heart surgery, and the show's creator points to this as the 'divergence point'. The rockets the Soviets use to land on the Moon in the show were N1.
The alt history takes the, unlikely due to inferior technology, path that the last ditch Soviet launch right before Apollo 11 (a launch that did in fact happen, but failed), succeeded. The show seems to make it clear that this was influenced largely by luck as the Soviets had not done any sort of "dress rehearsals" to the moon like NASA had.