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International Astronautical Congress

The **International Astronautical Congress (IAC)** is a several days lasting conference for actors in the discipline of astronautics yearly held in London. The meetings consist of plenary sessions, lectures and panel discussions. The IAC is attended by the heads and senior executives of the world's space agencies, as well as from the private sector. The annual event took place for the first time in 1950.

## History

Margo Madison and Sergei Nikulov both attended the congress since at least 1984. Over the years, they got to know each other better and developed a friendship that gradually took a romantic turn.

In 1992, one of the main topics of the conference was the Race to Mars. A panel discussion was scheduled with Helios Aerospace CEO Dev Ayesa and the directors of Roscosmos and NASA, Sergei and Margo. However, Sergei missed that panel because of "complications".

Later that day, in her hotel room, Margo was blackmailed by KGBW agent Peter Strauss with secretly taken pictures, after she refused to give Sergei NASA's nuclear engine design he had begged her for. After another KGB henchman threatened to strangle Sergei, Strauss gave her a phone number and 24 hours to think about the situation.

## Gallery

Announcement for the panel discussionMargo & Sergei at the 1992 IACDev Ayesa at the 1992 IAC
## Notes

There is some discrepancy in the numbering of the IAC in the show. At the beginning of episode 3x03, in a flashback to 1984, the caption reads "27th annual IAC". Later in the episode, in 1992, the caption reads "35th annual IAC". However, only seconds later, a placard is shown with "43rd International Astronautical Congress."

In reality, the IAC is held annually since 1950. 1992 was the 43rd IAC, hold in Washington D.C. It seems, that the captions in the episode are wrong, but the placard is correct.

## Behind the scenes

In *For All Mankind*, the congress seems to be located always in London. In reality, the IACW is hold by the International Astronautical FederationW (IAF), a non-governmental organization, and hosted by one of its national society members, with the location changing every year.

## External links

* International Astronautical Congress on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
Bill (disambiguation)

**Bill** may refer to:

* Bill Strausser, engineer and former NASA flight director, now at Helios Aerospace.
* Bill McGann, news anchor and a political commentator for Eagle News in the 90s.
* Bill Clinton, Democratic nominee for President in the US 1992 election.

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Character Appearances

These charts list the appearances of all relevant characters who appear in at least 4 episodes through the show. Non-physical appearances such as photographs are not listed.

## Rules

* Main characters are credited in the opening titles.
* Recurring characters are credited during the ending titles and appear in 4 episodes or more during the season.
* Guest characters are credited during the ending titles but appear in less than 4 episodes during the season.

## Legend

Please use this as a key. The character's location at the beginning of the episode should be used, unless the character spends the majority of the episode in another location.

* Appearances by Season
* Appearances by Character

Character appears on Earth (in Western countries)

Character appears on Earth (in Eastern countries)

Character appears in Space

Character appears on the Moon

Character appears on Mars

Character is heard but not seen

Character dies

Character appears in a video

Character appears in a flashback

Character does not appear

Main characters

Recurring characters

Guest characters
## Appearances by Season

### Season 1

* Main Characters
* Supporting Characters
* Other Characters

 Episode

 Episode

 Episode

### Season 2

* Main Characters
* Supporting Characters
* Other Characters

 Episode

 Episode

 Episode

### Season 3

* Main Characters
* Supporting Characters
* Other Characters

 Episode

 Episode

 Episode

### Season 4

* Main Characters
* Supporting Characters
* Other Characters

 Episode

 Episode

 Episode

## Appearances by Character

* Main Characters
* Supporting Characters
* Other Characters

**Notes**:

* 1 Aleida Rosales was interpreted by Olivia Trujillo in Season 1.
* 2 Daniel Stevens was interpreted by Jason Scott David & Mason Thames in Season 1.

**Notes**:

* 3 Jimmy Stevens was interpreted by William Lee Holler & **Zakary Shawn Risinger** in Season 1.
* 4 Shane Baldwin was interpreted by Tait Blum in Season 1.
* 5 Javier Diaz was interpreted by Tiago Martinez in Season 3.
* 6 Avery Stevens was interpreted by **Delaney Claire Evans** & **Parker Reese Evans** in Season 3.
Dimitri Mayakovsky

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

## Professional Information

### Occupation

Cosmonaut
Doctor

### Affiliations

Roscosmos
Soviet Space Program (former)

### Missions

Happy Valley (2003)
Sojourner-1
Mars-94
Zvezda (1983)

## Series Information

### Seasons

Two, Three, Four

**Dr. Dimitri Mayakovsky** is a Soviet cosmonaut and a medical doctor.

## History

### Season 2

In 1983, during the Jamestown crisis, after two cosmonauts were shot by US Moon Marines, Dr. Mayakovsky was one of two cosmonauts who were allowed to enter the Jamestown base to look after their crew members. He wanted to see Rolan Baranov who survived and was lying in the medbay but was in a coma. Dimitri wanted to take him with them to their own base, but the station's doctor, Dr. Kouri, and Jamestown commmander Alex Rossi did not allow this.

### Season 3

*This section is currently incomplete. You can help by expanding it! Click here to add more.*
In 1994, Dimitri was part of Roscosmos' Mars-94 mission. After the failure of their spacecraft due to technical problems halfway to Mars and the following rescue by NASA's *Sojourner* crew, he became part of the US/USSR joint mission on the red planet.

### Season 4

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

*See also: Image gallery of Dimitri Mayakovsky*
Dimitri Mayakovsky at Jamestown 1983Dimitri Mayakovsky on Sojourner 1995Dimitri Mayakovsky at Happy Valley base, 1995Mayakovsky at the Helios base, 1995Mayakovsky at Happy Valley, 2003
## See also

* Viktor Tsukanov
* Grigory Kuznetsov
* Isabel Castillo
* Alexei Poletov
* Mars-94

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 5: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
Garrett Reisman (character)

*This article is about the character. For the real life astronaut, consultant, and actor, see Garrett Reisman.*

## Series Information

### Season

Two

**Garrett Reisman** is a NASA astronaut and Space Shuttle pilot.

## History

Reisman piloted the Space Shuttle *Columbia* which brought Ellen Wilson, Wubbo Ockels, and Molly Cobb back to Earth after the solar flare incident in May 1983.

Later that year, Reisman was the pilot of the *Columbia* mission that brought Gordo Stevens to the Moon after a 10 years absence.

## Gallery

Garrett Reisman in Space Shuttle *Columbia*.....with Ellen Wilson, Molly Cobb, & Wubbo OckelsGarrett Reisman & Gordo Steven in *Columbia*
## Trivia

Garrett Reisman is the real name of the actor, who was a consultant of the series during season 1 and at the beginning of season 2. Reisman is a former NASA astronaut, he flew with 3 different Space Shuttles and was on the International Space StationW for several missions. He is a Professor of Astronautics Practice and a consultant at SpaceXW. He was allowed for a cameo as shuttle pilot in two episodes of season 2.

## External links

* Personal website
* Garrett Reisman's albums on flickr
* Garrett Reisman on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 2: "The Bleeding Edge"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 8: "And Here's to You"
Goddard Space Flight Center

## Maps

###

* GSFC on US map

The **Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC)** is a NASA space research laboratory located in GreenbeltW, Maryland. It was established on May 1, 1959 as NASA's first space flight center and is named after the American rocket propulsion pioneer Robert H. GoddardW.

## History

In 2003, NASA astronomer Natalie Morioka discovered a formerly unknown asteroid in the vicinity of Jupiter on images taken by the Thomas Paine Space Telescope. The object got the designation 2003LC and after studying the data, it was believed to have decayed from a Jovian trojan orbit. The object appeared to have been thrown out of its orbit and redirected towards the inner Solar System. Further studies figured out that it comes in on a Mars-crossing orbit and that it's about 1.1 km in diameter. After analysis of its moon, it was presumed to have a density of about 7 grams per cm3 and contain an estimate of 70,000 metric tons of IridiumW, valued at $20 trillion. Because of this, 2003LC was colloquially known as "Goldilocks".

## Gallery

Inside GSFCNatalie Morioka discovers a new object on a TPST image2003LC beside JupiterZoomed in view of the first image
## Behind the scenes

In the real world, the Goddard Space Flight Center manages operations for many NASA and international missions, including the James Webb Space TelescopeW, which is the real world counterpart of the Thomas Paine Space Telescope in the show, and also the Hubble Space TelescopeW and other observatory missions.

## See also

* Other NASA facilites:
	+ Cobb Space Center (CSC, formerly JSC)
	+ Kennedy Space Center (KSC)
	+ Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
	+ Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)
	+ NASA Flight Research Center (Edwards AFB) (FRC)
	+ McMurdo Station (NASA annex)
	+ Carl Sagan Center for Planetary Science

## External links

* Goddard Space Flight Center on Wikipedia
* Goddard Space Flight Center - official website

## References

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

**Grigory Kuznetsov** was a Soviet cosmonaut and was the commander of the Roscosmos' Mars-94 mission.

## History

### Season 3

*This section is currently incomplete. You can help by expanding it! Click here to add more.*
In 1992, Roscosmos director Sergei Nikulov publicly announced on Soviet television Grigory Kuznetsov as the mission commander for their mission to Mars in 1996.

After the failure of the Soviet spacecraft due to technical problems halfway to Mars and their rescue by NASA's *Sojourner* crew, he became part of the US/USSR joint mission on the red planet. After the landing, he tried to fool Danielle Poole and be the first human to set foot on Mars, but she went after him and they finally stepped on Martian ground together.

### Season 4

After a game of cards, Kuznetsov beat Ed Baldwin to become the first person to step foot on an asteroid. On March 17, 2003, as part of a mission to tow the asteroid XF Kronos towards Mars' orbit for later mining, he undertook an EVA from the capture ship *Ranger 1* to the floating rock in space. After marking the historic moment, the Happy Valley team anchored a docking construction to connect the asteroid with the towing craft. However, the anchors were not strong enough, tethers broke loose, and the crew lost control. Without hesitation, Kuznetsov agreed to re-tension the cables, despite the pleas from the Happy Valley commander George Peters. He was joined by Helios astronaut Tom Parker. However, the structure would collapse and Kuznetsov's leg would be crushed by the truss. Kuznetsov warned Parker about the incoming structural debris, which impaled the latter. Realizing his suit was punctured and losing oxygen quickly, Kuznetsov plead with Ed to cut him loose, otherwise risking the rest of the team. After some reluctance, Baldwin seperated *Ranger-1*, leaving Kuznetsov to drift off with the asteroid.

### Legacy

News of Kuznetsov's death lead to Danielle Poole to come out of retirement and return to Happy Valley as the new commander. Denizens of Happy Valley also wore GK (ГК) patches to honor him. However, some like Samantha Massey weren't pleased as there were no tribute for Tom Parker who also was lost during the Kronos capturing mission.

Kuznetsov Station was named in his honour.

## Gallery

*See also: Image gallery of Grigory Kuznetsov*
Being announced as mission commanderGrigory arriving on SojournerGrigory aboard SojournerGrigory aboard SojournerGrigory in Happy Valley baseGrigory's news videoGrigory with EdDringking VodkaGrigory makes contactFirst man on an asteroid
## See also

* Dr. Dimitri Mayakovsky
* Isabel Castillo
* Alexei Poletov
* Mars-94

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost" (Newspaper date @ 15:03)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 1: "Polaris"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 5: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
5. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 2: "Have A Nice Sol"
Jack Gould

**Jack Gould** is a journalist and reporter for the *Houston Sentinel* in the 90s.

## History

During the protests on the day President Ellen Wilson visited the Johnson Space Center in fall 1994, Jack Gould saw Jimmy Stevens in the crowd and recognized him as the son of Gordo and Tracy. He asked him why he's here, but Jimmy told him to "fuck off".

## Gallery

Gould tries to interview Jimmy Stevens at JSC protests

## See also

* Karla Dunn
* Janice Haan ("Reporter 1")
* Reporter 2

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
Dimiter D. Marinov

## External Links

**Dimiter D. Marinov** is a Bulgarian-American actor, violinist, and writer.
He portrays Ilya Breshov in season 4 of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*.

Marinov joining the cast as recurring was announced in October 2022.

## External links

* deadline.com: ‘For All Mankind’: Maria Mashkova & Dimiter Marinov Join Apple Series As Recurring
Dr. Chase

## Doctor Chase

**Doctor Chase** was a medical doctor and part of the flight controller team during Apollo 15.

## History

Dr. Chase was the flight surgeon for Apollo 15, a common position in the flight controller team for every mission. Chase was in charge of monitoring Ed Baldwin's and Molly Cobb's vital signs during their search for water ice at the Shackleton Crater.

Monitoring the telemetry sent by their spacesuit, Chase realized soon that due to the increased activity, the oxygen consumption of both astronauts was higher than planned. He informed flight director Gene Kranz and was told that it was a 3 km walk back to the LEM and ordered to let him know when it's time to pull the plug.

Soon after Molly started her descent into the crator, Chase noticed that she was using even more oxygen than expected, reducing the time she could stay inside the crater significantly. Only about half way down, he figured that she would only have enough air for about 2 more minutes, considering the ascent and the walk back to the base. Soon after, he called it off, and CAPCOM Fred Talmadge told Molly to return. However, Molly refused to do so, as she saw smomething that looked like it could be ice close to her, making Doctor Chase becoming nervous. He said that she's sucking O2 like crazy and that her heart rate was at 170, calling to immediately abort and head back up. Molly requested another 30 seconds from Ed, and managed to get a piece of ice from a lava tube, and was then pulled up to the surface by Ed.

## Gallery

Dr. Chase moitoring the vital signs of Ed & MollyInforming Gene KranzMolly's O2 is running short

## See also

* Ray Schumer
* Fred Talmadge
* Tim McKiernan
* Gene Kranz

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 5: "Into the Abyss"
Jamestown rocket testing site

**Jamestown Rocket Testing Site** is a NASA facility on the Moon. It is a part of the ever growing US lunar outpost Jamestown and located nearby. Its purpose is to test horizontally mounted rocket engines for interplanetary space flight.

## History

In July 1992, NASA was testing its K-32 NERVA for their planned 1996 Mars mission on this facility.

## Gallery

The testing siteTesting the K-32 NERVA in 1992
## See also

* Jamestown
* Shackleton
* NERVA
* Sojourner 1

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 1: "Polaris"
Flight director

*This article is about the situation at NASA. There are similar positions in other Mission Control Centers too.*

## General Information

### Incumbents

Jen Hughes (current)
Aleida Rosales (former)
Bill Strausser (former)
Margo Madison (former)
Irene Hendricks (former)
Gene Kranz (former)

The **Flight Director**, often just called **Flight**, ist the head of the flight controllers team in Mission Control. The person monitors the activities of a team of flight controllers and has overall responsibility for success and safety.

## General information

Flight controllers work at computer consoles and use telemetry to monitor various technical aspects of a space mission. Each controller is an expert in a specific area and constantly communicates with additional experts in the back rooms or in remote facilities. They make recommendations to the flight director involving their areas of responsibility. Any controller may call for an abort if the circumstances require it. Flight controllers are responsible for the success of the mission and for the lives of the astronauts under their watch.

The **flight director** is the head of the flight controllers team and has overall operational responsibility for missions and payload operations and for all decisions regarding safe flight.

## History

During the Apollo missions, the flight director at NASA was Gene Kranz.

After Gene died in 1974 during the failed launch of Apollo 23, Irene Hendricks became NASA's first female flight director. She was later joined by Margo Madison, who blackmailed administrator Harold Weisner to move her to that position. However, Hendricks was still acting as flight director until the mid 80s.

By 1992, Bill Strausser was in charge of that position until he left NASA after over 30 years and moved to Helios Aerospace.

In 1994, Aleida Rosales was leading the flight controller team.

In 2003, NASA's flight director is Jen Hughes. Aleida still works in Mission Control, but is back on a flight controller position (THRUST).

## Gallery

Flight director Gene Kranz 1969Flight director Gene Kranz 1969Flight director Gene Kranz 1974Irene Hendricks, first female flight director 1974Flight director Margo Madison 1974Flight director Margo Madison 1974Flight director Irene Hendricks 1983Flight director Irene Hendricks 1983Flight director Bill Strausser 1992Flight director Aleida Rosales 1994Flight director Jen Hughes 2003
## See also

* Mission Control
* Flight controller
* Chief of Astronaut Office
* NASA

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1 (Episodes 1 - 6)
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 6: "Home Again"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 8: "Rupture"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 1: "Every Little Thing"
5. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 10: "The Grey"
6. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 1: "Polaris"
7. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 3: "All In"
8. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost"
Beagle

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

## History

Like all other first generation Space Shuttles, *Beagle* was put into service at some point between late 1981 and early 1983.

On May 20, 1983, *Beagle* was planned to launch for a mission but was put on hold after a report on some issues with the main engine turbopumps.

*Beagle* is still in service in the 90s, doing regular Jamestown crew rotations.

## Behind the scenes

In the real word, there was no Space Shuttle with the name *Beagle*. Its name likely derived from HMS *Beagle*, the ship that carried naturalist Charles Darwin to the Galapagos Islands in the 19th century.

## See also

* *Atlantis*
* *Challenger*
* *Columbia*
* *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 4: "Pathfinder" (Mission board @ 35:31) → Screenshot
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 2: "Game Changer" (Mission status board @ 57:45) → Screenshot
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down" (Mission status board @ 43:03) → Screenshot
Fyodor Korzhenko

**Fyodor Korzhenko** is a Soviet politician who serves as President of the Soviet Union since the KGB-backed coup d'etat in 2003 that overthrew Mikhail Gorbachev.

## History

### Season 4

During Gorbachev's rule, Korzhenko rose to become a Member of the PolitburoW and has been a fierce critic and political opponent of Mikhail Gorbachev and his liberal politics. A communist hardliner, Korzhenko laments at what he perceived to be the Soviet Union's moral degradation and betrayal of working-class principles under Gorbachev's reformist administration.

Ahead of the 2001 Soviet parliamentary election, Korzhenko openly criticized Gorbachev and threatened the then-Soviet leader would face "dire consequences" if he failed to rein in Western capitalism. In 2003, the communist hardliners, led by Korzhenko, orchestrated a coup d'etat against Gorbachev. The coup was backed by the police and pro-hardliner factions within the KGB, mainly the Second DirectorateW. While there were initial clashes with the army, which initially sought to restore Gorbachev to power, the hardliners prevailed and forced an agreement with Gorbachev and the army for a bloodless transfer of power to Korzhenko.

## See also

* 2003 Soviet coup d'état
* Mikhail Gorbachev
* List of leaders of the Soviet Union
* Soviet Union

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 3: "The Bear Hug"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 AppleTV+ Bonus Video: Leap Into a New Millenium: 1996-2001 - Soviet Economic Boom (2001)
Dive Deeper into Season 2

"**Dive Deeper in Season 2**" is a series of bonus content released by Apple TV+ during season 2. It consists of 5 short videos in the format of video messages recorded by certain characters.

The videos can be watched on Apple TV+ after selecting the episode they belong to.

## See also

* Season 2
* One Giant Leap: 1975-1982
* For All Mankind: Time Capsule
* For All Mankind: The Official Podcast
Gerardo Ortiz-Niño

**Gerardo Ortiz-Niño** is a Helios worker at Happy Valley.

## History

*This section is currently incomplete. You can help by expanding it! Click here to add more.*
Gerardo shares a quarter with Miles Dale, Samantha Massey, and Maya Estime.

## See also

* Samantha Massey
* Miles Dale
* Maya Estime
* Ilya Breshov

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 2: "Have A Nice Sol"
Dick Gephardt

**Dick Gephardt** is an American politician and lobbyist for the Democratic PartyW and the Speaker of the House in the 90s.

## History

*This section is currently incomplete. You can help by expanding it! Click here to add more.*
In 1994, Dick puts pressure on Ellen Wilson to defund NASA and transfer their profits into other departments.

In 1995, he threatened her with a lawsuit to get access to the Oval OfficeW recordings and openly talked about the possibility of an impeachment.

## Gallery

19941995Ellen, Dick and their aides at a meeting at Oval Office

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 9: "Coming Home"
Elizabeth Glover

**Elizabeth "Zizzo" Glover** is an astronaut and botanist on the spacecraft *Phoenix* of private competitor Helios Aerospace on their mission to Mars.

## History

Zizzo is the mission's botanist, working on the hydroponic module of the ship, growing and cultivating several sorts of salads and other plants.

## See also

* Edward Baldwin
* Danny Stevens
* Nick Corrado †
* Louisa Mueller
* Adarsh Sethi
* Benjamin Harmon
* Lars Hagstrom
* Sandy Bostik
Eric W. Phillips

## External Links

**Eric W. Phillips** is an American writer, director, and actor.

He was a writer's assistant in season 2 and 3 of the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind* and wrote one episode of season 3, together with Joe Menosky.

He was already part of the crew in season 1 (uncredited) and will also work for the show in season 4.
Elliott Lewis

**Elliott Lewis** is an old college friend of Jeremy Zielke, a White House aide to the Wilson administration in the 90s.

## History

Elliott knew about Jeremy's secret affair with first gentleman Larry Wilson. Some time in 1995, while having drinks at a bar in D.C., Jeremy told him that they had "made it" in the Oval OfficeW once. Elliott left the bar and instantly called an unknown person, telling him that he won't believe what he just heard.

This leak led to Congressman Willie Baron asking Larry about having an affair with a White House aide at the House subcommittee hearing on NASA contracts, as unnamed sources would have informed the committee about this. Larry denied, and by doing so, lied to the committee under oath.

The indiscretion of Elliott and Jeremy finally led to Larry having a press conference on September 3rd, 1995, where he wanted to confess. However, he was interrupted by Ellen, who took over the speaker's table and made her public coming-out.

## Gallery

Elliott & Jeremy talking at a barElliott LewisJeremy Zielke

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 10: "Stranger in a Strange Land" (Newspaper date at 11:15)
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 9: "Coming Home"
Gagarin Ridge

The **Gagarin Ridge** is a steep ridge in Melas Chasma, Valles Marineris on Mars, close to the plain where the Helios mission set up their first Mars base in 1995.

## History

Soon after the first three crewed Mars missions had landed and set up their bases on the Martian surface early 1995, after analyzing orbital scans, Soviet scientists discovered a potentially huge liquid water deposit in the area. The reservoir was assumed to have the size of Lake TahoeW, which could sustain a colony bigger than the size of Houston. The underground deposit was expected below a ridge close to Helios' Mars base, which was named "Gagarin Ridge", in honor of the Soviet cosmonaut and hero Yuri GagarinW.

The Soviets, whose cosmonauts on Mars were part of NASA's Mars mission at that point, after their own ship had malfunctioned during the journey and their crew had to be rescued by the Americans, subsequently approached Dev Ayesa and Karen Baldwin from Helios Aerospace with the wish to use their equipment, namely the Helios MSAM and their "Big Ass Drill" (BAD), to get access to those water deposits.

*Main article: Gagarin Ridge drilling disaster*
During the following drilling operation on top of Gagarin Ridge, a malfunction of the drill led to a fatal chain reaction, mainly caused by Danny Stevens not following orders to prevent further escalation due to his drug problem. This finally caused part of the ridge to slide, leading to a catastrophic landslide that buried most of the infrastructure of Helios' base camp at the foot of the ridge and killed 3 persons.

## Gallery

Gagarin Ridge (right)Helios base below Gagarin RidgeHelios base below Gagarin RidgeView over the Melas Chasma canyon from Gagarin RidgeDrilling site on Gagarin RidgeSeismologic map of the region during the landslideGagarin Ridge & landslide seen from orbitInSAR image of the regionGagarin Ridge & Helios base on a mapSatellite image of the region after the landslide
## See also

* Melas Chasma / Valles Marineris
* Gagarin Ridge drilling disaster
* Race to Mars
* Mars

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 8: "The Sands of Ares"
International Space Port

The **International Space Port (ISP)** is a space station in Earth's orbit, used as space port and transfer station for interplanetary spaceflight.

## History

The station was built at some point between 1996 and 1999.

On New Year's Day 2000, the station's computers were affected by the so called "Y2K" bug, wreaking havoc after the computer's clocks reset.

The space port is used as transfer station by the spaceship *Unity* of Helios Aerospace for their Mars route. *Unity* travels between the ISP and the space station *Phoenix* in Martian orbit.

## Behind the scenes

The "International Space Port" appears to be the show's version of the International Space StationW ISS. In reality, the first ISS component was launched in 1998, and the first long-term residents arrived two years later in November 2000. The station has since been continuously occupied.

## See also

* Phoenix
* Mir
* Skylab

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost" (Press review intro) → Screenshot
2. ↑ Bonus Video: Leap Into a New Millenium: 1996-2001 - A Game Changing Engine (1999)
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 1: "Glasnost" (Press review intro)
For All Mankind: The Official Podcast

## External Links

**For All Mankind: The Official Podcast** is the title of a series of podcasts released by Apple TV+ during the seasons two and three of *For All Mankind*.

## Synopsis

Join host Krys Marshall and hear from space experts and former astronauts about what really goes down beyond our atmosphere on the official podcast for the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*. Each episode features guests from the series, space experts, and never-before-heard audio that brings these gripping topics further to life. You'll hear how astronauts achieve the unbelievable.

## Season 2

### Duration

21 - 49 min

Krys Marshall

On February 15, 2021, Apple announced to launch its first TV+ companion podcast with *For All Mankind*, just in time for the start of the series' second season. The first episode was released on February 19, the same day as the season premiere. Regular episodes were published every two weeks, with additional bonus episodes interspersed irregularly, making it a total of 10 episodes.

## Season 3

### Duration

31 - 60 min

"For All Mankind: The Official Podcast" returned for season 3 with 10 weekly podcasts, one per episode. They were released the same day as the corresponding episode.

## Credits

* Episode descriptions from Apple Podcasts.
* *For All Mankind: The Official Podcast* is an Apple TV+ Podcast, and an AT WILL MEDIA production.

## See also

* *For All Mankind*
* For All Mankind: Time Capsule
* Apple TV+ bonus videos

## References

1. ↑   9to5mac.com: Apple launches first TV+ companion podcast *(Archived 2022-11-28)*
Government Computer Network

The **Government Computer Network** is a massive network of government computers all linked together, including the DoD, CIA, State DepartmentW, and NASA. It is highly regulated by the US government and only very few services are available for public use.

## History

The computer network was developed in the early 1960s and first known as ARPANETW, a network established and used by the US Department of Defense.

The network later evolved into a large web of linked government computers, used by all major US departments and agencies.

A service also available to the public in the 80s is D-Mail.
By 1994, video-messages called "vidmail" are also shared via D-Mail.

### Criticism on the block for public use

Internet rights activists and scientists around the world have for years criticized the restrictions on the network technology. At a computer science conference in 1985 in DavosW, Switzerland, British computer scientist and programmer Tim Berners-LeeW again stepped up his criticism on the US government for the continued block of public use of the network.

## Notes

1. ↑ The Government Computer Network is the equivalent to our timeline's internet, but the term "internet" is actually never used in the show's main content. The only time it was ever used so far is in a news broadcast in the bonus videos, when Tim Berners-Lee and other networking scientists are called "internet activists".

## Gallery

Tim Berners-Lee,
Internet rights activistBerners-Lee in the news, 1985Data center in the 80sD-Mail v.1.2, used on an Apple II in 1983Printed D-Mail directory in 1983D-Mail menu on *Phoenix*, 1994A vidmail sent via D-Mail
## Behind the scenes

* While it is known that the internet is highly restricted by the US in the *For All Mankind* timeline, it is unknown if and how computer networks outside the United States are run.
* The only known publicly available service is D-Mail, which seems to be the equivalent of OTL E-Mail, and maybe videotelephonyW (however, it is unknown if the videophones seen in the show run over the internet).

## Trivia

* In the Apple TV+ bonus video, the word "Government" is repeatedly misspelled as "Goverment".
* In season 4, in episode 4x03, Dev Ayesa uses the word "e-mail" instead of "d-mail", although on every screen shown the service is still only known as d-mail.
* In episode 4x10, Sergei Nikulov's motel has a sign reading "Free Internet".
* The showrunners Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert confirmed in a Reddit AMA on December 8 2023 (during the season 4 release period), that the internet is still restricted in the show's timeline.

## See also

* D-Mail
* Videotelephony

## External links

* Internet on Wikipedia
* ARPANET on Wikipedia

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Bonus Video: Another Giant Leap: 1984-1992 - Internet Accessibility (1985)
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 5: "Seven Minutes of Terror"
4. ↑   reddit.com: AMA with Ben Nedivi and Matt Wolpert *(Archived 2024-01-23)*
Hopper

**"Hopper"** is the designation and callsign of a new generation of transfer shuttles used for human and cargo transport between the *Phoenix* orbital space station and Happy Valley on the Martian surface.

## History

In 2003, Miles Dale and his group of new Mars workers arrived on the planet aboard *Hopper-4*, after their spaceship *Unity* had docked at *Phoenix* in orbit.

## Technical details

Hoppers are the successors of the former MSAM that originally came to Mars with the *Phonix* spacecraft in 1995. They are larger than the original MSAM was and have long landing legs, which allows for specially designed transfer rovers to drive underneath the craft and dock with it. The rover has two docking ports, one at the top to dock with the Hopper, and one at the back to dock with one of the airlocks of the Mars base, making it possible that astronauts and space workers can travel between the space station and the colony without the need of ever wearing a spacesuit.

*Phoenix* station has 8 docking ports for Hopper craft, and there are 6 landing pads on the ground, providing high traffic capacity between orbit and ground.

## Gallery

4 Hoppers docked to *Phoenix* stationCockpit of the Hopper craftDeploying landing gearApproaching Happy ValleyHopper landedThe trasfer shuttle rover beneath *Hopper-4*Transfer rover with the 2 docking ports

## See also

* MSAM
* Phoenix (space station)

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 4, Episode 2: "Have A Nice Sol"
Hank Poppen

**Hank Poppen** was a flight controller at NASA, working in the Mission Control Center of the Manned Spacecraft Center in Houston, TX, during the 60s and early 70s.

## History

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Hank was the retrofire officer (RETRO) of the flight controller team, during the early manned Apollo flights, including Apollo 11. As RETRO, he was responsible for determination of retrofire times, abort plans, and to plan and monitor Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuvers.

## Gallery

Hank on his place between Tim McKiernan and Margo Madison
## See also

* Fred Talmadge
* Tim McKiernan
* Flight controller
* Mission Control
Discovery

## 1983 crew patch

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

## History

On May 20, 1983, *Discovery* was in turnaround on the West Coast, together with the two sister ships *Enterprise* and *Endeavour*.

Around June 23, *Discovery* launched for its mission STS-83-O to bring Tracy Stevens, Paul DeWeese and astronauts Cook and Rogers to the Moon for Jamestown 89. On the return flight, it took the crew of Jamestown 83 back to Earth. The mission was piloted by Dealino and W. Pendle.

*Discovery* was scheduled for mission STS-84-B to bring the crew of Jamestown 93 to the Moon.

## Gallery

*Discovery* launches, 1983*Discovery's* launch seen on TVInside *Discovery**Discovery* pilot W. Pendle (right)Pre-launch interview with Tracy Stevens
## See also

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

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 1: "Every Little Thing"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 4: "Pathfinder" (Mission board @ 35:31) → Screenshot
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 4: "Pathfinder"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 2: "Game Changer" (Mission status board @ 57:45) → Screenshot
Dr. Kouri

**Dr. Kouri** is a NASA physician who served at the lunar base Jamestown in 1983.

## History

Part of the Jamestown 86 mission, Dr. Kouri was serving as the station's doctor from May to September 1983. She examined Molly Cobb and medicated Wubbo Ockels after they were stuck in a lava tube on the lunar surface during the solar storm on May 21.

After Moon Marines shot two cosmonauts near the US mining site 357 Bravo, she monitored cosmonaut Rolan Baranov's condition, who survived the shooting but lost consciousness. She presented him to the Soviet doctor Dimitri Mayakovsky, who was allowed to visit Jamestown after the incident, but refused to ready Baranov for transport to Zvezda, as in her opinion he would not survive a relocation at his current condition.

Kouri was also at Jamestown during the following attack on the base by Soviet cosmonauts.

## Gallery

Dr. Kouri after the solar stormDr. Kouri with Rolan BaranovDr. Kouri & Dr. MayakovskyDuring the attack on Jamestown

## See also

* Rolan Baranov
* Dimitri Mayakovsky
* Solar flare event 1983
* Battle of Jamestown Base
* Jamestown crisis

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 2: "The Bleeding Edge"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 10: "The Grey"
Fred Talmadge

**Fred Talmadge** is an American astronaut at NASA. He was part of the Apollo 10 crew which was intended to be a test run for Apollo 11.

## History

In May 1969, Talmadge was the CSM pilot of Apollo 10, staying in lunar orbit while his crew mates Edward Baldwin and Gordo Stevens descended towards the Moon with the LEM until being 8 miles away from the surface, where they returned as planned. When the Soviets later landed on the Moon first, his crew mates began facing criticism for not landing when they seemingly had the possibility.

During the landing of Apollo 11 on July 20, Fred was acting as an expert on national TV, expaining how the separation of CSM and LEM in lunar orbit and the subsequent landing on the Moon will work.

In October 1971, Fred served as CAPCOM for Apollo 15.

## Gallery

Talmadge explaning Apollo 11 separation on TVFred Talmadge as CAPCOM for Apollo 15
## Behind the scenes

Fred Talmadge takes the place of John YoungW, who was the real-life CSM pilot of the Apollo 10 mission.

## See also

* Ed Baldwin
* Gordo Stevens

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 1: "Red Moon"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 2: "He Built the Saturn V"
Gavin Donahue

**Gavin Donahue** is an American FBI agent. After the Apollo 23 disaster in August 1974, he was commissioned by the Department of Justice to investigate on potential security breaches at JSC and other NASA facilities.

## History

After the explosion of Apollo 23 on its lauch pad on August 24, 1974, the FBI started an investigation on potential Soviet sabotage. FBI special agent Gavin Donahue was given wide latitude by the Department of Justice to investigate within NASA's organisation.

Donahue suspected Soviet influence everywhere. His investigations led to Aleida Rosales' father Octavia being deported back to Mexico, and also put great pressure on Ellen Waverly and Larry Wilson, as the latter was suspected by Donahue to be a homosexual under Soviet influence. This was the main reason for the two to get married as a cover-up.

## Gallery

Interrogation of Larry WilsonInterrogation of Ellen WaverlyInterrogation of Octavio RosalesOctavio Rosales is arrested

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 6: "Home Again"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 10: "A City Upon a Hill"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 1, Episode 7: "Hi Bob"
Earth

## Earth, Sun & Moon

The **Earth** is the third planet from the Sun.
It is the only astronomical object known to have life on it.

Earth is the home for all mankind.

> Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every superstar, every supreme leader, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
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> Carl SaganW,
> Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in SpaceW
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## See also

* Solar System
* Mercury
* Venus
* Earth   →   Moon
* Mars
* Jupiter
* Neptune
Helios Mars base

## Station Flag

The **Helios Mars base** was the base of private Mars race competitor Helios Aerospace on Mars in 1995. It was located close to the Happy Valley base of the combined US/Soviet missions in the canyon Melas Chasma in the Valles Marineris canyon system, at the foot of Gagarin Ridge. The base consisted of 2 big rovers used as mobile habitats, a landing pad for their landing module *Popeye*, used to transport personnel between the base and the mothership in orbit, and some other facilities.

## History

After a drilling disaster, which buried most of the former base's facilities including the MSAM and one of the HAB rovers, and the recovery of all still usable tech, all remaining crew members headed over to the Happy Valley base, which serves now as the only remaining real base on Mars.

## Former crew

### Initially

* Ed Baldwin (Phoenix mission commander)
* Danny Stevens
* Nick Corrado †
* Louisa Mueller
* Benjamin Harmon (temporary)
* Lars Hagstrom (temporary)

### During the drilling operation

* Grigory Kuznetsov (Roscosmos mission commander)
* Dr. Dimitri Mayakovsky
* Isabel Castillo †
* Alexei Poletov †

### During rescue and recovery

* Danielle Poole (NASA mission commander)
* Rolan Baranov
* William Tyler
* Kelly Baldwin

## Gallery

Helios' landing siteEd Baldwin & Danny Stevens on MarsHelios unloading mobile Mars habitat roverHelios mobile habitat roversAerial view of the baseLocation on MarsLocation on MarsLocation on MarsDanny Stevens and Louisa Mueller working outside a HABWater drilling siteThe region of the former base after the landslideHAB 1 after released from the debrisThe surviving HAB rover docked to Happy Valley base
## See also

* Happy Valley base
* Helios Mars mission
* Gagarin Ridge drilling disaster
* Race to Mars
* Mars

## References

1. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 4: "Happy Valley"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 7: "Bring It Down"
3. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 6: "New Eden"
4. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 3, Episode 10: "Stranger in a Strange Land"
Natalie Bishop

**Natalie Bishop** is an astronaut with NASA who served at the lunar base Jamestown in 1983.

## History

Bishop was part of the Jamestown mission 91 and came to the base in September 1983 aboard the Space Shuttle *Columbia*, along with Gordo Stevens, Jonathan Gatos, Mark Tremblay, and astronaut White.

She was at Jamestown when the base was attacked by the Soviets, after Moon Marines had shot two cosmonauts near an US claimed mining site. Before the assault started, Natalie was working together with Jonathan Gatos in the main control room of Jamestown. Beside the two, Steve Pomeranz and Cook were also in that room, when Pomeranz unexpectedly noticed a cosmonaut standing outside the base. While he was wondering what he was doing out there, the cosmonaut started shooting at the window Pomeranz was observing him through. When the window broke after several shots, the pressure inside the room lowered rapidly.

While Bishop, Cook, and Pomeranz were able to escape and close the door behind them, Gatos was struck by some equipment and subsequently sucked out of the now broken window, dying on the lunar surface from the lack of air and pressure.

Bishop, Cook, and Pomeranz were later nursed outside the control room by station medic Dr. Kouri.

## Gallery

Bishop working in the control roomCosmonaut attacks JamestownPressure lossBishop during the pressure lossDr. Kouri nursing Bishop and the other survivorsJamestown 91 mission patch

## See also

* Jonathan Gatos
* Steve Pomeranz
* Battle of Jamestown Base

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 9: "Triage"
2. ↑ *For All Mankind* TV Series - Season 2, Episode 10: "The Grey"
Maril Davis

## External Links

**Maril Davis** is an executive producer for the Apple TV+ series *For All Mankind*, working for Ronald D. Moore's production company Tall Ship Productions.

## External links

* showbizjunkies.com: Ronald D. Moore, Maril Davis on Creating an Alternate Version of the Space Race

### Other work

* Outlander   IMDb   •  WikipediaW  •  Fandom
* Caprica
* Electric Dreams