"For All Mankind" season 3 brings space race to Mars

Soviets and US are joined by a private company Helios for a three way race to Mars in the alternate 1990s of For All Mankind season 3. The alternate history sci-fi TV series are exploring the idea of never ending space race if Soviets would have beaten US in the race for the Moon. In first two seasons of the show the focus was the Moon: in season 1, depicting alternate 1969 to 1974, both Soviets and US start building their separate bases near the lunar South pole; in season 2, depicting the alternate 1983, both bases have been expanded and the superpowers compete for resources on the Lunar surface.

The intention of the show is each season to jump about a decade further into the increasingly diverging reality of the show. Season 3 depicts alternate 1992 to 1995 when a race to establish first human base on Mars is facing various dangers for all of the participants. Here is a large collection of HD images from season 3 of the show. First part of the collection contains images with only minor spoilers, not revealing major story plots besides those already known from season 3 trailer.

The actual race starts with Helio's Phoenix launching from low Earth orbit, NASA's Sojourner from the Moon and Soviet Mars-94 directly from Earth:

Phoenix arriving to Mars:

Sojourner landing on Mars:

Astronauts and cosmonauts exploring Mars:

Helios' mobile base on Mars:

Mobile base interior:

NASA's base on Mars:

Delivery man on Mars :)

Water drilling site:

Driving in NASA's rover around Mars:

Soviet cosmonaut with a gun:

Jamestown US Moon base has been expanded since season 2:

NASA's Sojourner at Jamestown:

Polaris private orbital space station:

Helios' CEO presented a bold vision for company's next generation spaceship, Mars orbital station and colonies on Mars. Perhaps we will see some of the ideas realised in season 4:

MAJOR SPOILERS AHEAD
revealing significant story details

NASA's Sojourner deploying solar sails to gain some additional speed and surpass the competition:

Sojourner had to rescue Mars-94 crew after the Soviet ship experienced nuclear reactor meltdown:

.. which efectively led to a joint US-Soviet mission to the Red planet:

Mismanagement of the drill caused a landslide at Helios base:

In the final episode of season 3 we learned there actually had been a four way race to Mars and North Korean lander, disguised as an uncrewed probe, was the first to (crash)land on Mars with a sole survivor:

Kelly Baldwin gave birth to the first child on Mars:

Content from season 4 of "For All Mankind":

• How to steal an asteroid .. visual recap of season 4
• Mars base for 200 people in season 4
• Building a new civilization on Mars (a featurette for season 4)
• Asteroid mining will play a major role in season 4 (trailer)
• Season 4 teaser reveals a sprawling first human base on Mars
• Concept art for Helios' Mars colony and space transport in season 4

Content from season 1 to 3 of "For All Mankind":

• Jamestown US Moon base in season 3
• Lunar scenes in season 2
• Jamestown US Moon base in season 1