justbob
05-10-2021, 04:59 PM
Having slept in the family car all night to wake up and watch the first shuttle (Columbia) take live off in ‘81 and touring Kennedy Space Center multiple times over the years you could say I am!
Anyways, if you are into this type of stuff I highly recommend watching “For All Mankind” on Apple+.
This is not a repeat of history that we’ve all seen a hundred times. In fact it is an alternate history with an alternate timeline. Most of what we know takes place but not all.. Like the soviets being the first on the moon. Or how about weaponizing our newest nuclear powered shuttle AND the Soviet’s Buran?
The story line is mostly Apollo and smoothly transitions into shuttle (my fav) and is approximately from ‘62 to ‘83 with the last minute or so of season 2 taking us to ‘95 for a peak of Mars. It’s pretty much centered around the Moon and Cold War and could’ve easily became our real history if any number of things would have gone differently. Great story line, very believable characters, and what had to of cost multi millions in set design. You truly feel like you’re back in time.
Besides the astronaut’s obvious Vettes and a couple of others, I really appreciated all the average old cars they picked that looked showroom new as well. They chose common everyday cars to fill the streets like a Chevy Citation of all things LOL! I mean hey they were all over the place back then right? Just happy to see it wasn’t all muscle cars and they kept it real.
Anyways, here’s probably my favorite scene of one of the main characters returning to the moon after 10 years. Returning to Jamestown, an all out base now instead of the one room base he freaked out in a decade ago and catching a ride in now modern day tech Columbia.
Crank the base @ 1:32! [emoji16]
https://youtu.be/Uwr_NpsgDOQ
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Anyways, if you are into this type of stuff I highly recommend watching “For All Mankind” on Apple+.
This is not a repeat of history that we’ve all seen a hundred times. In fact it is an alternate history with an alternate timeline. Most of what we know takes place but not all.. Like the soviets being the first on the moon. Or how about weaponizing our newest nuclear powered shuttle AND the Soviet’s Buran?
The story line is mostly Apollo and smoothly transitions into shuttle (my fav) and is approximately from ‘62 to ‘83 with the last minute or so of season 2 taking us to ‘95 for a peak of Mars. It’s pretty much centered around the Moon and Cold War and could’ve easily became our real history if any number of things would have gone differently. Great story line, very believable characters, and what had to of cost multi millions in set design. You truly feel like you’re back in time.
Besides the astronaut’s obvious Vettes and a couple of others, I really appreciated all the average old cars they picked that looked showroom new as well. They chose common everyday cars to fill the streets like a Chevy Citation of all things LOL! I mean hey they were all over the place back then right? Just happy to see it wasn’t all muscle cars and they kept it real.
Anyways, here’s probably my favorite scene of one of the main characters returning to the moon after 10 years. Returning to Jamestown, an all out base now instead of the one room base he freaked out in a decade ago and catching a ride in now modern day tech Columbia.
Crank the base @ 1:32! [emoji16]
https://youtu.be/Uwr_NpsgDOQ
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