Political fiction - Gorbachev is a grand success. The USA and Russia become partners. China is still relatively poor and not a major space power.
Yeltsin and Putin are not mentioned, so far. Putin might appear later as a KGB man, presumably as a villain.
Al Gore gets elected President. The Clintons get divorced with Bill just ex-Governor. Presumably no more will be heard of them.
Having reached Mars in Season Three, we were already told an asteroid is next. It does indeed open with the landing on an asteroid: one that I assume is fictional, but looking like some of the actual asteroids. That part was convincing.
The asteroid is close enough to Mars to be put into orbit around Mars, to be a source of raw material. Is this valid science?
The asteroid is tethered, and then pushed. Obviously a source of tension, which I will not spoil.
Meantime Margo, having betrayed NASA, is being neglected in Moscow. The administrators there don't want her views. But from the amount of time spent on her, it seems safe to assume she will somehow come back. Maybe get a Presidential pardon.
Yeltsin and Putin are not mentioned, so far. Putin might appear later as a KGB man, presumably as a villain.
Al Gore gets elected President. The Clintons get divorced with Bill just ex-Governor. Presumably no more will be heard of them.
Having reached Mars in Season Three, we were already told an asteroid is next. It does indeed open with the landing on an asteroid: one that I assume is fictional, but looking like some of the actual asteroids. That part was convincing.
The asteroid is close enough to Mars to be put into orbit around Mars, to be a source of raw material. Is this valid science?
The asteroid is tethered, and then pushed. Obviously a source of tension, which I will not spoil.
Meantime Margo, having betrayed NASA, is being neglected in Moscow. The administrators there don't want her views. But from the amount of time spent on her, it seems safe to assume she will somehow come back. Maybe get a Presidential pardon.