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A timeline problem in For all mankind (lemmy.blahaj.zone)
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as someone who's looked into FAM and is interested about Spaceflight history and proposals i have a lot of confusion about some things one of them is the timeline according to the show Jamestown had landed in 1973 and it's implied to be after apollo-20 however it doesnt make sense since NASA can do two lunar missions per year even if they got infinite budget it will take at least until 1975 until they would get Jamestown worked out and launched Apollo 11-20 were already schedualed and if even if apollo-20 launches in 1973 it still means that NASA needs to test new technologies like the LSAM life support a new version of the CSM built for extended missions like i dont get it why make an alternate reality show about spaceflight and get all the historical and scientific things wrong you are pushing the greatest most devoted audience you can have

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[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

It’s alternate history, the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race.

And you can launch once a month, not twice a year, you can launch more frequently. But the logistics and costs don’t make sense.

Large part is not being able to operate in the dark on the moon, that’s the limiting factor.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Operating in the dark is another case of "very difficult, not impossible." RTGs were invented in 1954, and were used in real life by the crews of Apollo 12 through 17 to power long running lunar experiments. The RTG from Apollo 13 is still sitting in the South Pacific right now.

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago

Its the manned part, cant really build the ships that well or they’re too heavy to lift off or something along those lines.

[–] Fix_a_Fix@feddit.it 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

the space race accelerated all the research and development related to the space race

I'm pretty sure this is how it works in real life too lol. we just stopped veeery early into the space race

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

It does, but EVs and Solar crop up in the 80s far more in the show than real life too. It’s not just for space.