![]() ![]() "We all pointed out that the shuttle could never actually get to the moon. Reisman, who made a cameo appearance as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia on its way back from the moon, has served as a technical advisor for the series from its start. "Okay, so we know it can't," Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, admitted in an interview with collectSPACE. As a result, fans of "For All Mankind" took to Reddit and Facebook, to a wiki created specifically for the show and to YouTube to offer up their own explanations - some rather detailed, diving into the orbital mechanics of the problem. Moore and his fellow producers and writers have paid to the actual history and to justifying the changes they have made. It does not carry enough propellant to leave Earth's orbit and travel to the moon," the space agency stated.Īnd yet, multiple times in "For All Mankind," the series showed the shuttles flying to the moon.Īs the series is set in a different timeline, one could write it off to being science fiction, were it not for the attention to detail that show creator Ronald D. "The space shuttle is designed to travel in low-Earth orbit (within a few hundred miles of the Earth's surface). In response, NASA explained why not on its website. The actual winged orbiters never flew to the moon, although the public sometimes thought that they did. "For All Mankind," which follows what might have happened if the Soviet Union beat the United States to landing the first astronaut, or rather cosmonaut, on the moon in the 1960s, jumped into the early 1980s for its second season, which as real history records is when the space shuttle-era began. How was it possible for NASA's space shuttles to fly to the moon? The 11 words offer an explanation, however brief, for a point that was debated and discussed across multiple online communities, even though it was tangential to the series' plot lines. That one line, from the penultimate episode of the now complete second season of "For All Mankind," seemed to answer one of, if not the most frequently asked questions about the Apple TV+ alternate space history series. "Our shuttles need to refuel before they burn for the moon." ![]()
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