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Can't believe there isn't a thread up about this yet.
Season 2 dropped the other day. Next episode is the 26th.
I won't spoil anything, but it looks like the show is going to go in a very interesting direction.
For those of you who don't know, the show's premise is as follows:
In an alternate history, the Soviet Union lands a man on the moon first. Shortly after, they land a woman on the moon. Embarrassed, having had their prestige kicked into the ground, the US heavily invests into it's space program and starts training astronauts, including a core of female astronauts.
The team of female astronauts, who are pulled from the Mercury 13 (A real world program that trained a core of would be astronauts), are quickly ushered through the program at the behest of Nixon as a PR win. Obviously they are women in 1960's America, so they have to deal with a vast array of sexism, misogyny, and a culture which is sees them as house wives and baby reproductive ovens.
Aside from the cultural aspects of the show, the science in this show is HARD! This is really hard science fiction at it's best. I'd say the only show that get's it's science as well as this one is The Expanse.
This is an amazing what if, alternate history sci-fi show being run by Ronald D. Moore, of BSG fame.
I won't talk to much about what happens in the show, as it's easy to spoil things, but this show has a bright, bright future if it keeps going.
Season 2 dropped the other day. Next episode is the 26th.
I won't spoil anything, but it looks like the show is going to go in a very interesting direction.
For those of you who don't know, the show's premise is as follows:
In an alternate history, the Soviet Union lands a man on the moon first. Shortly after, they land a woman on the moon. Embarrassed, having had their prestige kicked into the ground, the US heavily invests into it's space program and starts training astronauts, including a core of female astronauts.
The team of female astronauts, who are pulled from the Mercury 13 (A real world program that trained a core of would be astronauts), are quickly ushered through the program at the behest of Nixon as a PR win. Obviously they are women in 1960's America, so they have to deal with a vast array of sexism, misogyny, and a culture which is sees them as house wives and baby reproductive ovens.
Aside from the cultural aspects of the show, the science in this show is HARD! This is really hard science fiction at it's best. I'd say the only show that get's it's science as well as this one is The Expanse.
This is an amazing what if, alternate history sci-fi show being run by Ronald D. Moore, of BSG fame.
I won't talk to much about what happens in the show, as it's easy to spoil things, but this show has a bright, bright future if it keeps going.