I loved how the updates were scheduled every five hours. Not only does it keep my impatient appetite for space TLs sated, but it thematically reflects how hectic and extraordinary a schedule the Shuttle operated in ITTL. An amazing April Fools Day treat!
Awesome to hear that this amazing timeline is continuing! I just want to put a small word in about how appreciative I am that this timeline decides to give attention to planetary science. As much as I love some of the other amazing alt-spaceflight works on this website, they often make the...
Hmmm. This has been an amazing timeline, but spaceflight has definitely not been one of the focuses (which is definitely okay, I don't think there would be that many divergences.) based on the CNN headline, it sounds like a shuttle is in trouble, but not fatally damaged- probably not anything...
One of the smaller (but still amazing bits) of this TL is how wonderfully evocative and poetic the chapter names are. It highlights in general how *authentic* this timeline feels to the time period. Not only have you created a compelling narrative of a more transformative ACW, you've captured...
There's a fascinating new piece from RussianSpaceWeb about the planned public announcement of the N-1/Groza system if it were successful:
I'm not sure if nixonhead was aware of these documents when he wrote the ITTL press release, but in any case he nailed it- the announcement of Zond 9 as a...
Incredible that within 40 years of the first African American dining in the White House, America has an African-American Vice President. That America is really going places! (Henry Ford as president for the Labour Party is pretty nuts too)
I second the above nomination for: Best Spaceflight and Technology Timeline: Time After Time: Imprints of the Space Transportation System Booster by @Rocketdyne_J2
I wonder how Salazar would feel about this fate rather then what happened in OTL. Sure, he lived a lot longer and saw his dictatorship entrenched, but became a tired old curmudgeon who lived in a fantasy after being booted out of the PM's office, reading fake newspapers and issuing fake...
As others have said, the value is most propaganda and one-upmanship. There probably is *some* value in gaining experience sustaining human life over interplanetary distances as well as interplanetary communications, but other goals such as pretty pictures or probes are easily achieved, with much...
That portrait of Howard looks like he is staring into the distance thinking of new and interesting ways to purge and punish all of those damned turncoats. Very ominous and perfect for his vindictive third term.
Cameron, based on a wikibox that can be found on page 68, looks like the arch-segregationist Homer Martin Adkins, the 32nd Governor of Arkansas who was derisively called "Holy Homer" by his critics.
Cameron's personality and politics on the other hand, is broadly based on Juan Perón, who I'm...
Putin is clearly in a weaker position then OTL, and it's resulted in him channeling his authoritarian impulses earlier then OTL. Chechnya turning into a fiasco and the trauma of the 4/9 attacks has resulted in a Putin which is more publicly power-hungry and a Russia which resembles today's...