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'For all mankind' shows if the space race continued; brings to heart what these people felt after going up and to the moon only to be stuck in earth orbit maxim

'For all mankind' shows if the space race continued; brings to heart what these people felt after going up and to the moon only to be stuck in earth orbit maximum for the next 40 years.

nabla9 6y ago
It's really good show (created and written by Ronald D. Moore). Writers try to take the technical and scientific advise seriously as much as they can. In the second season they show new spacecraft designs that are based on actual proposals. Like the Sea Dragon super heavy-lift launch vehicle. They also introduce androgynous mating system that is very similar to International Docking System Standard (IDSS) https://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/ https://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/
- arethuza 6y ago
  Nitpick: I think the Sea Dragon launch is actually first shown right at the very end of season 1. What I particularly like about the show is how technology advances more quickly in their timeline - e.g. electric car, cell phones in the 1980s.
  - nabla9 6y ago
    And those are completely believable or did already exist. 1G (analog cellular networks) already existed. NASA administrator might have had Motorola DynaTAC 8000X in 1983 even in our timeline. EV car that runs 60 miles with a single charge is a real change to our timeline, but believable if the investment into EV would have been huge (needed in the moon and space in large quantities). Overall, the worldbuilding that went into that show is impressive. Many events in the show actually happened, but are resolved differently or have different consequences.
    - Taniwha 6y ago
      EV cars with an 80 mile range were available in 1911 in this very timeline .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric
  - shantara 6y ago
    And yet somehow the whole S2 in centered about Space Shuttle program - years after a successful Sea Dragon launch. This was the most unbelievable development in the whole show.
drdeadringer 6y ago
I'm re-watching this right now. It is a great show.
- posix_me_less 6y ago
  It has some great visuals and some of the character/casts are great (Margo), and it gives interesting perspective on how the astronauts feel in their job, ups and downs. However, lots of "human-story" scenes are too tangential, boring and slow. Sex topics are completely out of place and boring. The radiation storm on the Moon was very nice, very mesmerizing, but story-wise, it was squandered. The heroism scene was mediocre. Ronald Moore did great with Galactica, but this show is a mixed bag. Not that great. Also, somehow they don't do good music in shows these days. It is too generic and forgettable.
- anonymousisme 6y ago
  The movie was better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(film)
  - woobar 6y ago
    I am not sure they are comparable. The movie is a documentary and the TV Show is an alternative history exploration of the space race.
    - anonymousisme 5y ago
      I would not categorize the movie as a documentary. There's no narration. The audio is all from the Apollo communications system, except for the music by Brian Eno.
starik36 6y ago
It's a good show, but it needs to have a bit more sci fi and a lot less pointless relationship drama.
- oh_sigh 6y ago
  Agreed. I really wanted to like it, but I thought it would be more about cold-war-on-the-moon rather than mostly about the gender, race, and sexuality of the American astronauts.

'For all mankind' shows if the space race continued; brings to heart what these people felt after going up and to the moon only to be stuck in earth orbit maximum for the next 40 years.

nabla9 6y ago

It's really good show (created and written by Ronald D. Moore). Writers try to take the technical and scientific advise seriously as much as they can. In the second season they show new spacecraft designs that are based on actual proposals. Like the Sea Dragon super heavy-lift launch vehicle. They also introduce androgynous mating system that is very similar to International Docking System Standard (IDSS) https://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/ https://www.internationaldockingstandard.com/

arethuza 6y ago
Nitpick: I think the Sea Dragon launch is actually first shown right at the very end of season 1. What I particularly like about the show is how technology advances more quickly in their timeline - e.g. electric car, cell phones in the 1980s.
- nabla9 6y ago
  And those are completely believable or did already exist. 1G (analog cellular networks) already existed. NASA administrator might have had Motorola DynaTAC 8000X in 1983 even in our timeline. EV car that runs 60 miles with a single charge is a real change to our timeline, but believable if the investment into EV would have been huge (needed in the moon and space in large quantities). Overall, the worldbuilding that went into that show is impressive. Many events in the show actually happened, but are resolved differently or have different consequences.
  - Taniwha 6y ago
    EV cars with an 80 mile range were available in 1911 in this very timeline .... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Electric
- shantara 6y ago
  And yet somehow the whole S2 in centered about Space Shuttle program - years after a successful Sea Dragon launch. This was the most unbelievable development in the whole show.

drdeadringer 6y ago

I'm re-watching this right now. It is a great show.

posix_me_less 6y ago
It has some great visuals and some of the character/casts are great (Margo), and it gives interesting perspective on how the astronauts feel in their job, ups and downs. However, lots of "human-story" scenes are too tangential, boring and slow. Sex topics are completely out of place and boring. The radiation storm on the Moon was very nice, very mesmerizing, but story-wise, it was squandered. The heroism scene was mediocre. Ronald Moore did great with Galactica, but this show is a mixed bag. Not that great. Also, somehow they don't do good music in shows these days. It is too generic and forgettable.
anonymousisme 6y ago
The movie was better. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_(film)
- woobar 6y ago
  I am not sure they are comparable. The movie is a documentary and the TV Show is an alternative history exploration of the space race.
  - anonymousisme 5y ago
    I would not categorize the movie as a documentary. There's no narration. The audio is all from the Apollo communications system, except for the music by Brian Eno.

starik36 6y ago

It's a good show, but it needs to have a bit more sci fi and a lot less pointless relationship drama.

oh_sigh 6y ago
Agreed. I really wanted to like it, but I thought it would be more about cold-war-on-the-moon rather than mostly about the gender, race, and sexuality of the American astronauts.