Jamestown US Moon base in season 1 of "For All Mankind" TV series

Monday, March 29, 2021

Jamestown US Moon base in season 1 of "For All Mankind" TV series

For All Mankind is alternate history sci-fi TV series depicting what could have happened if the space race had never ended after the Soviet Union succeeds in the first crewed Moon landing ahead of the United States in 1969. The authors of the show speculate such an event would force US to double down on space exploration altering the Apollo program from "flags and footprints" approach to a more ambitious one with extensive infrastructure buildup on the Moon (with hints of Mars exploration in later seasons of the show). Pouring money and resources into space exploration creates an atmosphere every space nerd would have wanted to continue after the enthusiastic 1960s.

Season 1 of the series (aired in 2019) depicts events from 1969 to 1974 in the alternate timeline of For All Mankind. The series are in the middle of season 2 now depicting the alternate 1983. It was said each season of the show will jump about a decade further into the increasingly diverging reality of the show. We will feature season 2 here after it will be aired completely. So here is a collection of HD images from season 1 with a focus on US Jamestown lunar base at the rim of Shackleton Crater near the lunar South pole where water ice is discovered in 1970 (several decades earlier than in reality):

Landing of the initial Jamestown lunar base module in October 1973:

Jamestown US Moon base landing in season 1 of 'For All Mankind'

Jamestown Phase 1 US lunar base in 1974:

US ice mining site at Shackleton Crater near the lunar South pole:

US ice mining site on the Moon in season 1 of 'For All Mankind'

1st US-Soviet encounter on the Moon was unfriendly but after events when US astronaut and Soviet cosmonaut both needed help from each other the relations between them became more mutually understanding: