All About Space

SHACKLETON CRATER

One popular science-fiction TV series is which chronicles a fascinating and thrilling alternative history of the US space program. In the alternate history, the Soviets beat the US to the Moon – Alexei Leonov takes that first small step instead of Neil Armstrong, quickly followed by a female cosmonaut, and it all follows on from there. By the mid-1970s there have been 25 Apollo missions,

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