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Columbia

## Space Shuttle patch

**Space Shuttle *Columbia*** is an American spacecraft. The spaceplane is one of the ten first generation Space Shuttles in NASA's fleet.

## History

In one of its first flights, *Columbia* brought 5 astronauts to the Moon for the Jamestown 36 mission in 1982.

On May 20, 1983, *Columbia* was parked in lunar orbit, scheduled to return to Earth the following week with the Jamestown crew rotating home. During the massive solar storm that happened the next day, the crew was ordered to move to the hardened shelter on mid-deck. The day after this event, *Columbia* took Ellen Wilson, as well as Molly Cobb and Wubbo Ockels, who had been exposed to high radiation during the storm, back to Earth.

In September of the same year, in its mission STS-83-R, *Columbia* brought back Gordo Stevens to the Moon after a 10 years absence as part of the Jamestown 91 mission, along with astronauts Natalie Bishop, Jonathan Gatos, Mark Tremblay, and White.

For both 1983 missions, *Columbia* was piloted by Garrett Reisman and Gibson.

Like the other 9 sister ships, *Columbia* is still in service in the mid 90s. Early 1995, it was assigned for the Jamestown 255 mission.

## Gallery

Departing from the Moon in May 1983*Columbia* at landing*Columbia* at launch pad at KSCTake-off for mission Jamestown 91Docking with the LSAM in lunar orbit
## See also

* *Atlantis*
* *Beagle*
* *Challenger*
* *Constitution*
* *Discovery*
* *Endeavour*
* *Enterprise*
* *Kon-Tiki*
* *Victoria*
* Space Shuttle
* Spaceplane

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 1: "Every Little Thing"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 8: "And Here's to You"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down" (Mission status board @ 43:00) → Screenshot
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 4: "Pathfinder" (Mission board @ 35:31) → Screenshot
5. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 2: "Game Changer" (Mission status board @ 07:47) → Screenshot
McMurdo Station

## NASA Annex Patch

The **McMurdo Station** is a United States research station on the south tip of Ross IslandW, AntarcticaW. It is operated by the United States Antarctic ProgramW (USAP). NASA has its own annex at this station.

## History

Kelly Baldwin is doing biological research at McMurdo. By 1992, Kelly has spent 2 years at the station searching for microbial life, in the most inhospitable environment of Earth. When NASA is recruiting its personnel for their preponed 1994 mission to Mars, this is her biggest trump to apply for a seat.

## Gallery

McMurdo StationMcMurdo StationNASA airplane landing at McMurdo StationKelly Baldwin inside the McMurdo Station
## Behind the scenes

McMurdo Station is real and is the largest community in Antarctica, capable of supporting up to 1,250 residents. It serves as one of three year-round United States Antarctic science facilities.

## See also

* Other NASA facilites:
	+ Johnson Space Center (JSC, later CSC)
	+ Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
	+ Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
	+ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
	+ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
	+ NASA Flight Research Center (Edwards AFB) (FRC)
	+ Carl Sagan Center for Planetary Science

## External links

* McMurdo Station on Wikipedia
* nsf.gov: Website of real McMurdo Station

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
Ilya Breshov

> psst, Listen. If you can not find anything you need at the PX, like booze, laser disc, playboy magazines...
>
> Ilya Breshov, in Season 4, Episode 2, "Have A Nice Sol"

**Ilya Breshov** is a Soviet worker for Helios Aerospace at Happy Valley, and a veteran of the Mars base. He works for Helios for 15 years, first on the Moon, then on Mars.

## History

Ilya runs an inofficial bar in the underground levels of Happy Valley, where he sells self-made Vodka. He also operates a small smuggling ring and offers difficult to get stuff like LaserDiscsW, Playboy magazines, and other things that his customers demand.

When Miles Dale arrived at Happy Valley in 2003, Ilya approached him right away, offering his services. Later, Samantha Massey took Miles to Ilya's bar.

After Miles realized that he was not making the amount of money he expected, he offered Ilya to work with him, and, since Miles had a Green Card due to working for base maintenance, giving him access to many restricted areas of the colony, was accepted and became part of Ilya's smuggling operations. Subsequently, Miles was able to canvass many new customers, but breaks the still in the Ilya's bar. While fixing it, Miles manages to steal a part from the North Korean sector of the base, although he is caught by Lee Jung-Gil. Lee who already knows about Ilya's smuggling, asks to smuggle his wife.

The added money that Miles has been making, allows him to send home a martian rock. This turns out to be very valuable, selling for $5000. Although Ilya dismisses any ideas of further rock smuggling due to the risks involved. When he is asked how the plan to smuggle Lee's wife is going. He states that the risk is too high, although not to let Lee know.

Miles continues to work for Ilya, but is covertly smuggling the rocks himself. Ilya discovers this, informing his man in the loading dock, Petros Khorenatsi, that Miles is cut out. Miles discovers this news when attempting to load more of his rocks. He is warned not to speak to Ilya ever again and is choked against the wall. This spurs Miles into action, informing Lee of Ilya's true plans for his wife. Lee sends North Koreans to the loading dock, beating Petros, who claims that he was injured in an accident. While Miles takes over the bar with the help of Lee and the North Koreans in exchange for continuing to help with his wife.

## Gallery

*See also: Image gallery of Ilya Breshov*
Ilya's private bar at Happy Valley
## See also

* Faiza Khatib
* Miles Dale
* Samantha Massey

## References

1. ↑   deadline.com: Deadline casting article
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 3: "The Bear Hug"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 2: "Have A Nice Sol"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 4: "House Divided"
5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 5: "Goldilocks"
6. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 6: "Leningrad"
George H. W. Bush

**George Herbert Walker Bush** was the 45th Vice President of the United States. Prior to his role as Vice President he served as Secretary of StateW to President Ellen Wilson.

## History

Bush was tapped to be Secretary of State by the incoming Wilson administration. During the fallout of Ellen Wilsons's coming out, he suggested that she fight impeachment and not resign. During the 1996 presidential election, he was picked by Wilson to draw moderate Republicans to her side and beat her former Vice President Jim Bragg in the Republican primaries. The Wilson/Bush eek out a victory in 1996 against Jerry Brown.

He would serve as Vice President for four years. In the 2000 election he was the Republican nominee and faced former Vice President Al Gore, but lost to Gore in a close race.

## Behind the scenes

In OTL Bush was the 41st President of the United States from 1989-1993 and instead of Richard Schweiker he was Ronald Reagan's Vice President from 1981-1989.

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 10: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
2. ↑ AppleTV+ Bonus Video: Wilson Wins Re-election (1996)
3. ↑ AppleTV+ Bonus Video: Election Night (2000)
4. ↑   Presidency of George H. W. Bush on Wikipedia
Jason Wilhelm

**Jason Wilhelm** was a Moon Marine sent to Jamestown in 1983.

## History

Wilhelm was part of the first group of five marines NASA sent to Jamestown in summer 1983 after the Soviets occupied the US claimed mining site 357/Bravo. He also took part in the retaking of that site in mid September, and was in Jamestown during the assault on the base by Soviet cosmonauts later on.

During a rotation of the crew guarding 357/Bravo, Wilhelm discovered movement on the ridge over the site. He was ordered to stay on the site while the marines Vance Paulson, Helena Webster, and Steven Lopez went up to check it out, what then led to the shooting of two cosmonauts, of which one died on site. Wilhelm was later assiged the task to bring the dead body to Jamestown.

## Gallery

Moon marines preparing for JamestownArrival at JamestownTogether with the other marinesMoon marines Wilhelm, Webster, PaulsonJason Wilhelm & Helena Webster at 357/BravoWilhelm, Webster, & Paulson on Jamestown
## See also

* Vance Paulson
* Helena Webster
* Steven Lopez
* Charles Bernitz
* Moon Marines

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 5: "The Weight"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 7: "Don't Be Cruel"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 8: "And Here's to You"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
Kon-Tiki

Kon-Tiki docked to SkyLab, 1983

## Space Shuttle patch

**Space Shuttle *Kon-Tiki*** is an American spacecraft. The spaceplane is one of the ten first generation Space Shuttles in NASA's fleet.

## History

Like all first generation shuttles, *Kon-Tiki* was put into service sometime between late 1981 and early 1983.

On May 20, 1983, *Kon-Tiki* was on its mission STS-83-G and was docked at Skylab, but scheduled for reentry and landing in the afternoon. However, for some reason they were still docked to the space station the next day, when ESA astronaut Doreen Campbell detected a massive coronal mass ejectionW in Skylab's solar observatory, the Apollo Telescope MountW, causing a dangerous solar storm that threatened satellites, spacecrafts and astronauts in Earth's orbit and on the Moon.

*Kon-Tiki* is still in service in the 90s and used for Jamestown supply runs and other operations.

## Behind the scenes

The shuttle is named after the vessel *Kon-TikiW*, which writer Thor HeyerdahlW used to test a theory about human migration to Polynesia. The name *Kon-Tiki* comes from the Inca creator deityW ViracochaW.

In the real word, there was no Space Shuttle with the name *Kon-Tiki*.

## See also

* *Atlantis*
* *Beagle*
* *Challenger*
* *Columbia*
* *Constitution*
* *Discovery*
* *Endeavour*
* *Enterprise*
* *Victoria*
* Space Shuttle
* Spaceplane

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 1: "Every Little Thing"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 2: "The Bleeding Edge" (Mission board @ 27:25)
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 2: "Game Changer" (Mission status board @ 07:47) → Screenshot
Lily Dale

Bill Strausser[src]

## Personal Information

### Family

Miles Dale (father)
Amanda Dale (mother)
Sarah Dale (sister)

## Series Information

### Season

Four

**Lily Dale** is the younger daughter of Miles and Amanda Dale, and the sister of Sarah.

## History

*This section is currently incomplete. You can help by expanding it! Click here to add more.*

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost"
N1

N1
--

The **N1** (Raketa-nositel', lit. "Сarrier Rocket"), or Cyrillic **Н1** (from *Ракета-носитель* ), was a Soviet human-rated super heavy-lift launch vehicle used in 1969 to carry Alexei Leonov to the Moon.

The N1's first stage was the most powerful rocket stage ever built, prior to the development of the Sea Dragon by the United States. The rocket was the brainchild of Soviet rocket scientist and director of the Soviet Space Program, Sergei Korolev. It was replaced with its even more powerful successor, the N3, which was first launched in August 1976.

## Gallery

*Note: These are real life images of the N1 launch vehicles used for illustration purposes.*
N1 mockup at the Baikonur Cosmodrome 1967Soviet N1 booster on launch pad at Baikonur Cosmodrome, KazakhstanNight launch of N1Two of the gigantic five-stage N-1 rockets on their launch padsN1 on launch pad 11030 first stage engines of the N1
## See also

* Launch vehicle
* N3

## External links

* N1 (rocket) on Wikipedia
* planehistoria.com: N1 Rocket – The Most Powerful Space Rocket Ever Built *(archived 2023-09-30)*
* Spektr: N-1 Soviet Moon Rocket on YouTube (Footage of N1 launches)

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 1: "Red Moon"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 1: "Every Little Thing" (Season 2 press review opening)
Kennedy Space Center

*Not to be confused with Cape Kennedy.*

Shuttle Columbia at a launch complex at KSC

## Maps

###

* KSC on US map

The **John F. Kennedy Space Center**, formerly "NASA Launch Operation Center", mostly referred to as **Kennedy Space Center** or just **KSC**, is one of NASA's field centers and a launch center for human spaceflight.

## General information

The center is located on Merrit Island, FloridaW and consists of several facilities, including two launch complexes and a Space Shuttle landing strip. It is adjacent to Cape Kennedy and was constructed between 1962 and 1963, when NASA required an expansion of launch operations after president John F. Kennedy'sW declared goal of a crewed lunar landing by 1970, and the Cape's capabilities became too limited.

## Gallery

Space Shuttle Columbia ready to launch at KSCKSC launch complex seen from Mission Control in HoustonShuttle Columbia take-off from KSCCrowd waiting for Space Shuttle take-off from KSCHappy Valley rotation returns to KSC
## Behind the scenes

In the series, images of the KSC are also used for Cape Kennedy, which might be even more confusing beside the similar names of the two different sites.

Images from real KSC
Space Shuttle rollout at KSC, 1990Launch Complex 39 in 1999Shuttle Landing Facility at KSC, 2012
## See also

* Other NASA facilites:
	+ Johnson Space Center (JSC, later CSC)
	+ Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
	+ Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)
	+ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
	+ NASA Flight Research Center (Edwards AFB) (FRC)
	+ McMurdo Station (NASA annex)
	+ Carl Sagan Center for Planetary Science
* USAF facilities:
	+ Cape Kennedy
	+ Edwards Air Force Base
	+ Ellington Air Force Base
	+ US Air Force Plant 42
	+ Vandenberg Air Force Base

## External links

* Kennedy Space Center on Wikipedia
* Official Website
John Glenn

> John Glenn wasn't "John Glenn" until he became John Glenn
>
> Deke Slayton, in Season 1, Episode 3, "Nixon's Women" in response to the women ASCANs not being worthy candidates

**John Glenn**, full name **John Herschel Glenn Jr.**, was a former US astronaut with NASA. Glenn was the first American in Earth's orbit.

## History

Glenn visited Deke Slayton in his office in JSC to express his concerns about the woman astronaut program after the death of Patty Doyle. He thought that woman do not belong to space and argued that *"men go off and fight the wars and fly the planes"* and that *"woman can't do what we do"*, that would be *"just a fact of social order"*. He told Deke that he is worried about the credibility of NASA and urged him to pull the plug on the female ASCAN program.

## Gallery

John Glenn at Deke Slayton's officeJohn Glenn talking to Deke
## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 4: "Prime Crew"
Javier Diaz

**Javier "Javi" Diaz** is the son of Aleida Rosales and Victor Diaz.

## History

### Season 3

Sometime after 1983, Aleida and Victor have become a couple, married and got a son, Javier.

In 1992, Javi is around 3-4 years old and they all live together with grandfather Octavio in Houston. At some point about 2-3 years later, Javi's parents separated, because of his mother's work and his grandfather's dementia, which became more and more a problem. By March 1995, Javi lives with his father and visits his mother on Sundays.

### Season 4

In 2003, the family is back together and Javier got a little sister, Graciana, named after Aleida's mother, Graciana Rosales.

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 1: "Polaris"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost"
Lee Atwater

**Lee Atwater** is a political advisor for the Republican party. He served as Ellen Wilson's advisor for running as U.S. Senator, believing she would one day be the first woman President of the United States.

## History

### Season 2

Lee Atwater consulted Larry Wilson, telling him Ronald Reagan respected Ellen Wilson, suggesting she should run for Senator. Atwater offered to help Ellen as he had with past Republican Presidents, and that the people would vote for her as the Americans crave a hero.

## See also

* Ellen Wilson
* Larry Wilson

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
KGB

The **KGB** (Russian: Комитет государственной безопасности) is the main intelligence service of the Soviet Union. They are instrumental in Margo Madison's betrayal of the United States and eventual defection.

## History

### Background

The KGB was founded in 1954, as the chief security agency for the Soviet Union. It was the eventual successor to the Stalinist era NKVDW.

They have maintained a role at Star City since at least prior to the first Moon landing in 1969. Due to their goal of intelligence gathering, they have also played a major role in technology theft, being particularly useful at human intelligenceW. They utilized these skills in fostering a relationship between then Roscosmos director Sergei Nikulov and director of Johnson Space Center, Margo Madison. The relationship under the handling of Irina Morozova resulted in Buran being saved from a potential disasterW. As well as Madison passing classified information on the NERVA engine design, that allowed Roscosmos to meet the 1994 launch window for Mars.

They have also shown their willingness to use force when necessary. After Nikulov is intially unable to persuade Madison for the engine design, she is threatened with exposure for the information she has already shared. After she again refuses, the agents strangle Nikulov in front of her, prompting her to share the design.

They are also highly skilled at more covert intelligence gathering, having assets in at least the US justice department and at Happy Valley. The former allowing the agency to exfiltrate Madison to the Soviet Union before she is arrested by the FBI.

The KGB is made up of different directorates, who may or may not speak to each other. This comes to the fore during the 2003 Soviet coup d'état, with differing directorates supporting either side of the coup. A phone number given to Madison anonymously, is discovered to be a trap number for one directorate masquerading as another. This leads to confusion between differing parties.

While the American CIA is their traditional rival, they have shown the ability to work with them as partners. During the Goldilocks capturing mission, communications equipment is stolen at Happy Valley. KGB asset Timur Avilov and CIA agent Mike Bishop are mobilized to investigate the theft. Working together, they discover Helios worker Miles Dale is the leader of the black market on the base, and interrogate him for information.

## Known personnel

* Irina Morozova
* Timur Avilov
* Peter Strauss
* Anatoly
* KGB Agent (4x01)

## See also

* Soviet Union
* Margo Madison
* Sergei Nikulov

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 4: "House Divided"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 8: "Legacy"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 7: "Don't Be Cruel"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
5. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
6. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 10: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
7. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 3: "The Bear Hug"
8. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 9: "Brazil"
Neptune

**Neptune** is an ice giantW in the Solar System and the eighth planet from the SunW, which it orbits at a distance of about 30 astronomical units.

## General information

Neptune is the fourth-largest by diameter, and the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet in the system. It is composed primarily of gases and liquids and therefore has no defined solid surface. The planet's blue appearance is partly caused by traces of methane in the outermost regions, absorbing red light.

## History

In March 1995, NASA's *Pioneer 23* probe was on a photo OPS mission in Neptune's orbit.
Around the same time, *Voyager 5*, an outer planets survey probe, was doing UV spectro observations beyond Neptune's orbit.

## Notes

Neptune is not shown in the series. The image in the infobox is from original sources (Voyager 2, 1989), not from the show.

## Behind the scenes

* In reality, Voyager 2W is the only spacecraft that has ever visited Neptune, making its closest approach to the planet in August 1989.
* In 2006, the International Astronomical UnionW (IAU) redefined the term "planet" and excluded dwarf planets like PlutoW, which made Neptune the farthest out official planet in the Solar System. It is unknown if Pluto is still considered as a planet in the *For All Mankind* timeline.

1. ↑ **Pioneer**
Pioneer 23 in *For All Mankind* appears to be a JPL mission in Neptune's orbit.
In reality, the Pioneer programW were two series of lunar and planetary space probes, the first running from 1958 to 1960, and the second from 1965 to 1992. The best known missions are *Pioneer 10W* and *Pioneer 11W*, which were the first human-built objects to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. Both vehicles carry a gold-anodized aluminum Pioneer plaqueW with a message from mankind, in the event that either spacecraft is ever found by intelligent lifeforms from other planetary systems.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 **Voyager**
The Voyager programW in reality consists of two interstellar probes, *Voyager 1W* and *Voyager 2W*. They were both launched in 1977 and took advantage of a favorable alignment of the planets Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, to fly near them while collecting data. As of 2023, both probes are still in operation past the outer boundary of the heliosphere in interstellar space.
In *For All Mankind*, the program seems to be running more than two probes, with *Voyager-5* operating beyond Neptune's orbit in March 1995.

## See also

* Solar System
* Mercury
* Venus
* Earth   →   Moon
* Mars
* Jupiter
* Space missions

## External links

* Neptune on Wikipedia
* science.nasa.gov: NASA science: Neptune *(Archived 2024-01-15)*

## References

1. ↑ Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down" (Mission status board @ 43:00) → Screenshot
2. ↑ Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden" (Mission status board @ 44:50) → Screenshot
Karla Dunn

**Karla Dunn** is an American journalist and television reporter in the 90s.

## History

In fall 1994, Karla reported live from Johnson Space Center in Houston at the day Sojourner 1 launched to Mars.

On September 4th, 1995, during the operation to bring Kelly Baldwin to Phoenix to give birth, Karla, among many other reporters, was again in front of the JSC with her team, preparing to broadcast live about the event.

## Gallery

Karla reporting from JSC at the Mars launch dayKarla preparing during the Kelly Baldwin rocket operation

## See also

* Janice Haan
* Reporter 2
* Jack Gould

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 10: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Ken Rudulph

## External Links

**Ken Rudulph** is an American journalist, musician, and actor living in Los Angeles, CA.
He portrayed the TV news anchor Edward Kline in season 3 of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*.

## Other appearances

* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 (1985, 1990)
* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: Leap Into a New Millenium: 1996-2001 (1997)
John Dahl

## External Links

**John Dahl** is an American film and television director and writer. He directed the last two episodes of season 1 of *For All Mankind*.

## Other work

* Battlestar Galactica
* Breaking Bad
* Terriers
* Falling Skies
* Homeland
* Arrow
* Person of Interest
* The Americans
* The Strain
* House of Cards
* House of Lies
* Aquarius
* Jessica Jones
* The Good Doctor
* SEAL Team
* Yellowstone
* Evil
Larry Clarke

## External Links

**Larry Clarke** is an American actor, writer and director.
He portrays news anchor and commentator Bill McGann of Eagle News in the seasons three and four of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*.

## Credits

### Other appearances

* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 (1991)
* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: Leap Into a New Millenium: 1996-2001 (1998)
Morning USA

**Morning USA** is an American morning television program presented by TV hosts Ryan Bauer and Jenna Leigh.

## History

In 1992, the program covered debates between Bill Clinton and Ellen Wilson during the presidental race.

During the beginning of the Race to Mars in fall 1994, the show had an ongoing series about the crew of *Sojourner 1*, NASA's spacecraft on the way to Mars, where they presented all the astronauts of the mission.

After the landing on Mars in early 1995, they covered the building of the now US/USSR joint Mars base, Happy Valley.

When Kelly Baldwin's pregnancy became public, they reported about NASA being flooded with baby gifts.

## Gallery

Ryan Bauer & Jenna Leigh, hosts of Morning USADebate Wilson vs. Clinton on Morning USA, 1992Mars astronauts series
Danielle PooleMars astronauts series
Will TylerMars astronauts series
Clark HalladayMars astronauts series
Rolan BaranovMorning USA covering Happy ValleyMorning USA reports about baby gifts for Kelly
## Behind the scenes

*Morning USA* was first seen in *For All Mankind* in 1992.

## See also

* National News Channel
* Eagle News
* Category: News and Media

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 9: "Coming Home"
Method Studios

**Method Studios** is a VFX studio that works on *For All Mankind*.

## List of MS-employees on *For All Mankind*

* Romain Delmaire - Digital compositor
* Eugene Fokin - Lead modeler
* Jin Yong Kim - Matchmove superviso
* Robin Lamontagne - CG supervisor
* Kelly Noordermeer - Lead visual effects editor
* Jake Russell - Visual effects coordinator
* Felipe Vimeney - Modeler
* Antoine Wibaut - Compositing supervisor
* Maxime Masson - Production assistant
* Ric Atkinson - Lead digital artist
* Dominique Fernet - Visual effects coordinator
* André Léger - Visual Effects Editor
* Alexander Scherffig - Digital compositor
* Stanley Dellimore - Head of layout
* James Naud - Digital compositor
* Christopher Kowal - Head of editorial
* Cynthia Latour - Visual effects production coordinator
* Yinghao Chai - Look development artist
* Erick Leos - Senior visual effects editor
* Izabela Maliszewska - Modeler & environment artist
* Pedro Cal - Digital compositor
* Jeffrey Chan - Digital compositor
* Andrew Doucette - Animation superviso
* Mathew Krentz - Visual effects supervisor
* Susan Ma - Integration department manager
* Daniel James Mason - Matchmove Artist
* Casey Rolseth - Lookdev artist
* Olivier Thibaut - Head of software
* Chris Wilson - Lead lighting td
* Manuel Huertas Marchena - Senior 3d generalist

## External links

* Method Studios on Wikipedia
* Studio website
Linus of Jamestown

Linus patch

The **Linus of Jamestown** was a title assigned to newbies on the lunar base Jamestown in the 80s.

## History

At some point, a little tradition was established on the US Moon base assigning the title of "Linus of Jamestown" to astronauts that came to the base for the first time. The Linus received a special patch with the comic figure Linus Van PeltW from *PeanutsW* on it. After the welcoming of the new arrivals by the station commander, the old Linus would pass the patch over to the next one by saying the words "I hereby christen thee the new Linus of Jamestown". It was then the old Linus' duty to inform the new arrivals about how everything works and give them a tour of the base.

In July 1983, the current Linus was Nick Corrado. When Tracy Stevens arrived, she became the new Linus of the station.

In late August, Moon Marine Charles Bernitz was taking over from Tracy.

## Gallery

"Linus" Nick CorradoNick showing the patch to the cameraTracy Stevens becomes the new "Linus""Linus" Tracy Stevens"Linus" Charles Bernitz

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 5: "The Weight"
Karl Rove

**Karl Christian Rove** is an American Republican lobbyist and a policy advisor and political consultant.

## History

After first gentleman Larry Wilson was accused of having an affair by Congressman Willie Baron during the House subcommittee hearing on NASA contracts in 1995, Rove was called as advisor on how to solve the situation. Together with vice president Bragg, he visited Ellen Wilson and Larry for a meeing in the Oval OfficeW.

According to the Speaker of the House, Ellen had already used Karl Rove, together with Lee Atwater, to do "her dirty work" and keep her image clean during her campaign to become president.

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 9: "Coming Home"
Leonora Pitts

## External Links

**Leonora Pitts** is a American actress, filmmaker, dancer, and community organizer, born and raised in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Leonora portrays NASA Flight director Irene Hendricks in the first two seasons of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*.

## Trivia

* Leonora is a founder of the Los Angeles Womens Film Collective.
MoonLab

## Patch

**MoonLab** was NASA's first space station in lunar orbit.

## History

The name MoonLab was originally attached not to a lunar orbital station but instead the surface station that became Jamestown. With the Apollo Applications ProjectW under Wernher von Braun seeking to refit a Saturn V third stage into an Earth orbiting space station which von Braun had dubbed Skylab, following his ouster from NASA in 1969 with the refit work at MSFC in Huntsville at an early stage, the project was instead converted to a Moon base with possible military applications as preferred by President Richard Nixon. Initially the Moon base concept was referred to as MoonLab, but then Head of NASA Public Relations Shorty Powers felt the name was stupid, and ultimately the base was renamed prior to its landing in 1973.

The eventual lunar orbital MoonLab was launched and operational at some point prior to 1989, the station made possible by the introduction of the much more powerful NERVA-powered Pathfinder space shuttles.

## Behind the scenes

The newsreel footage supposedly of MoonLab is in fact real world renders of the presently upcoming Lunar GatewayW. Much like the situation with the Thomas Paine Space Telescope, the visual depiction on the in-universe patch for MoonLab differs from these real world visuals.

## See also

* Skylab
* *Mir*
* Thomas Paine Space Telescope
* Jamestown

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 3: "Nixon's Women"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 5: "Into the Abyss"
3. ↑ Bonus Video: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 - Pathfinder Tragedy (1989)
Malaika Ayesa

Bill Strausser[src]

## Personal Information

### Nationality

   United States
   Kenya

## Series Information

### Episode

4x05

**Malaika Ayesa** is the mother of Helios Aerospace founder and CEO Dev Ayesa.

## History

In 2003, Dev visited Malaika at a Kenyan community center to say goodbye after he decided to leave Earth for Mars and not come back.

## See also

* Dev Ayesa
* Kirkland Aerospace

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 5: "Goldilocks"
Jimmy Carter

**Jimmy Carter**, full name **James Earl Carter Jr.**, is an American politician serving as a United States senator from Georgia since 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as the 76th Governor of Georgia.

In September 1983, when the Soviet Union admitted having shot down Korean Air Lines Flight 007, Senator Carter condemned the Soviet Union for their actions.

## Gallery

Sen. Jimmy Carter after the KAL-007 incident
## Behind the scenes

In OTL, Jimmy Carter served as 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981, until he was defeated in the 1980 election by Ronald Reagan.

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 7: "Don't Be Cruel"
Linda Park

## External Links

**Linda Park** is a Korean-American actress and producer who was born in South Korea and raised in San Jose, California.
She portrayed news anchor Amy Chang in season 2 of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*.

## Credits

### Other appearances

* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: One Giant Leap: 1975-1982 (1980, 1982)
* AppleTV+ Bonus Videos: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 (1988)

## Other work

* Star Trek Enterprise  as Hoshi SatoW (see also: Memory Alpha)
M1911

The **M1911** is a pistol used by NASA.

## History

M1911s were issued to the crew of *Pathfinder* for their mission to escort Sea Dragon 17 to the Moon. The rationale was if they were forced to land in the Soviet Union after returning to Earth, they would need to defend themselves and destroy the shuttle before the Soviets could get to it.

Sally Ride threatened Ed Baldwin with her M1911 after he relieved her of duty for refusing to lock their weapons on *Buran*. Ed distracted her for long enough to draw his own M1911 and point it at her. He eventually gave his pistol to Gary Piscotty after he decided to shoot down Sea Dragon instead of *Buran* while Sally maintained her sight on him until the missiles impacted Sea Dragon.

## Behind the scenes

* The M1911s in *For All Mankind* appear to be M1911A1 variants.
* NASA astronauts were never issued firearms on any of their missions. However, Soviet cosmonauts were sometimes issued TP-82W guns for self-defense in case they landed in the vast wilderness of Siberia.

## Gallery

The pistols for the *Pathfinder* crewEd and Sally point their M1911s at each other
## See also

* M16
* Makarov

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 10: "The Grey"
Megan Shearin

**Megan Shearin** was one of the initially 20 female astronaut candidates in the NASA program to recruit woman astronauts. She ranked ninth in the performance ranking when there were 12 ASCANs left, and sixth in the final 8, but dropped out of the group at some later point in the selection process.

## Gallery

Megan in The OutpostMegan in The OutpostThe initial woman ASCAN class
## Trivia

Megan Shearin appears to be named after production crew member Megan Shearin , an assistant production coordinator during season 1 of *For All Mankind*.

## See also

* Patty Doyle
* Barbara Taylor
* Janice
* Women Astronauts Program

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 3: "Nixon's Women"
Mike Shaw

**Mike Shaw** was a Helios worker at Happy Valley in 2003.

## History

Mike Shaw was bribed by Miles Dale to provide an astronaut suit ahead of time for his trip to Peckinpah Mesa to collect more obsidiansW to be sent back to Earth. However, much to Miles' disappointment, Mike was only able to give him an old Helios suit from 1995, as the newer ones were all booked.

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 4: "House Divided"
Nate Lowry

**Nate Lowry** was a NASA astronaut at Happy Valley in 2003. His accidental shooting of Danielle Poole ended a riot between the M-7 security team and Helios workers.

## History

### Season 4

#### Happy Valley Security Detail

As one of the NASA astronauts with military background, Nate became part of the security detail of Happy Valley which was built during the Helios strike.

During the theft of goldilocks, the theft of communications equipment is discovered. The security detail searches the base for the missing equipment. While they do so, Nate is left to man a checkpoint, where he questions Miles Dale on his way to a repair job.

The searches increase as the missing equipment has still not been found. To prevent any potential sabotage, Danielle Poole confines non-essential personnel to quarters. During the search, Nate discovers a North Korean pistol in Frank Tuttle's locker. He hides the pistol in his pocket, and continues to search elsewhere.

After the equipment is discovered in the lower levels of the base, the conspirators are found to be hiding in the North Korean sector of the base. Nate is given the responsibility of breaching the door. As he and the security team try to get into the sector, Helios workers, upset at their treatment attack. He is beat over the head, and walks away. He pulls out the pistol but is spotted by the workers. They try to wrestle it away from him, but in the melee it goes off, striking Danielle. The shooting stops the riot, with all members of the base standing side by side as they watch Dr Dimitri Mayakovsky successively save her life.

## Notes

In episode 4x07, the character was only seen for a second as part of the security team, but without having a speaking role.

## See also

* Andy Whistler
* 2003 Helios strike

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 7: "Crossing The Line"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 9: "Brazil"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 10: "Perestroika"
Louisa Mueller

**Louisa Mueller** is a German astronaut on the spacecraft *Phoenix* of private competitor Helios Aerospace on their mission to Mars.

## History

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## Gallery

Louisa on PhoenixLouisa on PhoenixThe Phoenix crewLouisa inside the HAB roverLouisa emaciated, 1996
## See also

* Edward Baldwin
* Danny Stevens
* Nick Corrado
* Adarsh Sethi
* Zizzo Glover
* Benjamin Harmon
* Lars Hagstrom
* Sandy Bostik
Larry Wilson

*This article is not up-to-date and would benefit from updated information.* [ info ]

## Personal Information

### Family

Ellen Wilson (wife)
Scott Wilson (son)

## Professional Information

### Occupation

First Gentleman of the United States (former)
NASA Engineer (former)

## Series Information

### Episodes

18

**Larry Wilson** is a former NASA engineer and was the first First GentlemanW of the United States.

## History

### Season 1

While Ellen Waverly and other women were training to become the first female astronauts, he noticed Waverly to be homosexual just as he is. He then advised her how to keep them from suspicion. However, he and Ellen were suspected to be gay when they remained unmarried after appearing together for a long time.

When the FBI started investigations after the Apollo 23 disaster, special agent Gavin Donahue suspected Larry to be a gay communist. The two were pushed to marry each other to remove any suspicion. Eventually, they decide to do so.

### Season 2

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### Season 3

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Larry later supported Ellen's political career. By 1992, they have a son called Scott. After Ellen won the presidential race in 1992, Larry became the first ever "First Gentleman of the United States".

## Gallery

Larry Wilson in the 70sLarry Wilson during interrogation from the FBILarry Wilson 1983Larry Wilson 1995
## See also

* Ellen Wilson
* Scott Wilson

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 6: "Home Again"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 7: "Hi Bob"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 2: "Game Changer"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
Lunar Landing Training Vehicle

The **Lunar Landing Test Vehicle (LLTV)** was a training vehicle for NASA's astronauts during the Apollo program to learn the handling of the Apollo landing module used to land on the Moon. The LLTV was the successor of the previously built Lunar Landing Research Vehicle (LLRV). The test vehicles were also called "the flying bedstead".

The vehicles were vertical take-off vehicles using a single jet engine mounted on a gimbal so that it always pointed vertically. It was adjusted to cancel 5/6 of the vehicle's weight to simulate the behavior of a lunar lander as realistic as possible.

## History

### LLRV

Two Lunar Landing Research Vehicles had been built and were used at NASA's Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base in California to study and analyze piloting techniques needed to fly and land the lunar module in the Moon's airless environment. After acceptance by NASA, the two vehicles were transferred to the Ellington Air Force Base in Houston.

### LLTV

The research vehicles were later replaced by an improved version, the Lunar Landing Training Vehicle, and used for astronaut and ASCAN trainings at Ellington.

In October 1970, a tragic accident with an LLTV led to the death of Patty Doyle, one of NASA's first female ASCANs. During a first basic practise with the "flying bedstead", Patty lost control over the vehicle and missed the point to eject herself, crashing it on the test area at Ellington Air Base.

*See also: Patty Doyle, Women Astronauts Program, and Ellington Air Force Base*
## Gallery

The LLTV at Ellington Air Force BaseTracy Stevens flying the LLTVThe burning LLTV after Patty Doyle's crash
Real life images
Lunar Landing Research Vehicle in Edwards AFB, 1964LLRV over Edwards AFB, 1965
## See also

* Lunar Excursion Module (LEM)
* Lunar Surface Access Module (LSAM)

## External links

* Lunar Landing Training Vehicle on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 3: "Nixon's Women"
Jewel

**Jewel** is a woman Edward Baldwin met at a bar in Houston in September 1983, after his wife Karen told him that she had slept with someone else.

## History

Jewel was sitting at the bar across from Ed, who was drinking Whisky and playing with his wedding ring. When Jewel ordered another glass of wine, their eyes met, and when he got his drink refilled as well, he raised his glass to her. He stored his ring away and started to pay her drinks.

They later went to a hotel room to have sex, but finally Ed couldn't do it and stepped back. Jewel started to talk to him and asked how long he was divorced. When Ed admitted that he wasn't and was actually still married, she said that she would not care and continued to caress him, but Ed was not in the mood anymore. Jewel was pissed and left the room, after advising him that he should make up his mind before buying somebody drinks and turning on his charm.

Some days later, Jewel found out through an article in a newspaper that she had been in bed with national hero Ed Baldwin. She recorded a video message to her friend Michelle who was dating a guy from NASA to ask her for help finding out Ed's phone number.

## Gallery

Jewel at the barIn the hotel roomJewel leaves the roomRecording a video message
## Notes

Jewel featured in one of the five bonus content videos released for season 2 called Dive Deeper into Season 2, containing recorded video messages. She is the only minor character with such a video.

## See also

* Ed Baldwin
* Ginger
* Season 2 bonus content

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
2. ↑ Bonus content video for episode 2x09, "Triage"
Liz Phang

**Liz Phang** is an employee at NASA in 1983, working in the clean room where astronauts get their final preparations with their spacesuits before they move to the spacecraft.

## History

Liz was supervising the final dressing of astronauts Nathan Morrison and Danielle Poole before boarding their Saturn IB capsule for the Apollo-Soyuz mission in September 1983. She noticed that Danielle still had her wedding ring on and reminded her, that all jewelry had to come off before launch.

## See also

* Coral Hiscoe
* Leland Davis

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
Nelson Bradford

**Nelson Bradford** is an Air Force Major General. In the 1980s, he was the military liaison to NASA and commanded military operations at NASA. In 1995, he was Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of StaffW under President Ellen Wilson.

## History

### Season 2

Bradford was the person who first deduced that the Soviets had possibly planted a listening device at NASA's Jamestown base on the Moon and encouraged the search that resulted in a such a device being found.

General Bradford was also the person who unambiguously interpreted the President's requirement that the Jamestown astronauts re-take and hold the lunar mining site 357 Bravo as a requirement that the astronauts must be armed as a permanent security detail. Ed Baldwin, who also has a military background, agreed that guns would be necessary for the US astronauts to hold the mining site. They both concluded that armed marine astronauts would have the appropriate skillset.

When NASA Administrator Thomas Paine was reluctant to agree with Ed's recommendation for Danielle Poole as the NASA mission commander for Apollo-Soyuz, Bradford stated clearly that he supported Poole and would help Thomas get support from other politicians if needed.

### Season 3

By 1995, Nelson Bradford had become the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff under President Ellen Wilson.

## Notes

The two silver stars on his uniform indicate that he is a Major General in 1983.

## Gallery

Bradford 1983Bradford discussing Apollo-Soyuz missionBradford in the Oval Office, 1995
## See also

* General Arthur Weber
* General Jeanette Masters
* Adminstrator Thomas Paine

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 3: "Rules of Engagement"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 4: "Pathfinder"
Kuragin

**Kuragin** is a Soviet energy conglomerate run by Russian entrepreneur Andrei Bolkonsky.

## History

In 1987, Soviet Premier Mikhail Gorbachev announced that their space agency Roscosmos will form a partnership with Kuragin to mine Helium-3 on the Moon. The announcement was made after NASA partnered with Helios Aerospace when they discovered enormous deposits of the precious isotope on the Moon.

Kuragin was given a contract to also mine He-3 on the Soviet part of the Moon, as well as to build a fleet of shuttles to transport it back to Earth.

## Gallery

Kuragin headquarters in MoscowGorbatchev with Andrei BolkonskyKuragin in a US newscast
## Behind the scenes

* The name of the company, *Kuragin*, and its owner, Andrei Bolkonsky (spoken "Andrew Bolkonski" in the show's newscast), are obviously references to Leo Tolstoy'sW 1869 novel War and PeaceW. Prince Andrei Nikolayevich BolkonskyW and the Kuragin familyW are fictional characters in that novel and its various cinematic adaptations.
* The image of Gorbatchev and "Andrei Bolkonsky" is a photoshopped version of a picture of Gorbatchev and former French president François MitterandW during an official state visit in 1988.
* The footage used for the Kuragin headquarter shows the Diamond Hall Business Center at Olimpiysky Avenue in Moscow.

## See also

* Helios Aerospace
* Soviet Union
* Space Boom

## References

1. ↑ Bonus Video: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 - Clean Nuclear Energy (1987)
2. ↑   gettyimages.com: Original image