'For All Mankind' alternative timeline vs reality: How Apple TV's sci-fi show diverges from history
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By Richard Edwards
Published on April 17, 2026.
Apple TV's sci-fi show, "For All Mankind," has returned for its fifth season, featuring an accelerated version of humanity's exploration of the cosmos. The show had already taken us to the Moon and Mars by the mid-1990s, and now, as its fictional timeline reaches 2012, a Martian colony is developing. This includes Soviet cosmonaut Anastasia Belikova being the first woman to walk on the Moon, while astronaut Patty Doyle and Molly Cobb were astronaut trainees several years earlier. In real life, no women ever flew in the Apollo program, and Ted Kennedy was elected the 38th President of the United States. In the show's alternate history, the Vietnam War didn't actually end until 1975. The Soviet Union established its own Zvezda base near Jamestown.
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