History Series / ForAllMankind

''For All Mankind'' is a live action HistoricalFiction and AlternateHistory TV series created by [[Creator/RonMoore Ronald D. Moore]], Matt Wolpert, and Ben Nedivi, and which premiered on Creator/AppleTVPlus in November 2019. It shows a fictional history of [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace the Space Race]] where the Soviets landed on the moon before the Americans. NASA finds themselves scrambling to meet or exceed the Russians, including training female astronauts and creating a lunar base. Moore has reportedly planned out an entire seven season story arc in advance.

* NoPaperFuture: Averted. Jamestown has a communication device (presumably a fax-machine) that prints everything it receives on an endless paper strip. Why NASA decided to not eliminate or at least reduce that weight is never addressed.

* ArtisticLicenseSpace: During the watch party for the Apollo 15 landing, Wayne goes outside and looks up at a nearly-full moon. This is most likely mid-to-late afternoon, since it's 6:00 when Karen brings the party to a close. However, when the moon is full, it's on the opposite side of the earth from the sun, and therefore only visible at night.

** The space shuttles-- both American and Soviet-- are show flying to the moon after refueling in Earth orbit. However, even if you replaced the space shuttle orbiter's entire payload with extra fuel, you still wouldn't have anywhere near enough to reach the moon. [[note]] Whilst it's implied that they carry the external tank into orbit, refuel and then depart for the Moon, it still has the issue of the shuttle's thermal tiles not being strong enough against lunar reentry speeds.[[/note]]

** Molly survives [[spoiler: the initial JSC bombing, and despite being blind is able to escort several others through the smoke to safety as she has memorised the layout of the building. However, she heads back into the smoke to look for more survivors, and is later revealed to have died doing this. No matter how well you think you know the layout of somewhere, trying to navigate a partially-collapsed building that's full of smoke is very dangerous, especially for a blind person.]]

** Molly survives [[spoiler: the initial JSC bombing, and despite being blind is able to escort several others through the smoke to safety as she has memorised the layout of the building. However, she heads back into the smoke to look for more survivors, and is later revealed to have died. No matter how well you think you know the layout of somewhere, trying to navigate a partially-collapsed building that's full of smoke is very dangerous, especially for a blind person.]]

** Molly survives [[spoiler: the initial JSC bombing, and despite being blind is able to escort several others through the smoke to safety as she has memorised the layout of the building. However, she heads back into the smoke to look for more survivors, and is later revealed to have died. Because let's face it, trying to navigate a partially-collapsed building that's full of smoke would be dangerous enough for anyone, let alone a blind person.]]

** The space shuttles-- both American and Soviet-- are show flying to the moon after refueling in Earth orbit. However, even if you replaced the space shuttle orbiter's entire payload with extra fuel, you still wouldn't have anywhere near enough to reach the moon.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: One cosmonaut burns up inside his own space suit after being shot on the moon, this was stated to be because the bullet caused a spark inside the suit that ignited the pure oxygen atmosphere inside, a-la Apollo 1. There are a number of problems with this; First, oxygen is an oxidiser, not a fuel. On its own, it can't burn, it can only facilitate the burning of a fuel source. Given the known and obvious hazards of pure oxygen, space suits are designed to not be flammable, and their occupants don't make for very good fuel as humans are around 70% water. Second, whilst the suit had a pure oxygen atmosphere, it would have been at a low pressure (American suits in real life operate at 3 PSI pure oxygen, so as to replicate the partial pressure of oxygen in the atmosphere at sea level with no other gasses present). The suit would inflate like a balloon and be impossible to move in if it was inflated to a higher pressure. Third, there was a hole in the suit and the oxygen was leaking out. Suffice to say, burning alive in your own space suit is an extremely unlikely outcome to being shot on the moon.

* HidingTheHandicap: Molly takes great pains to keep secret that [[spoiler:she's slowly going blind after being exposed to radiation from a solar flare]].

** When [[spoiler: Grigory Kuznetsov ]]on a space walk is trapped by debris, Ed tries to organize a rescue but the cosmonaut calls it off. His suit is punctured and he cannot seal the leak. Mathematically he is dead already. By the time rescuers would get to him, he would be be long out of oxygen and beyond revival. A rescue/retrival attempt would only put the others in danger so they have to leave [[spoiler:Grigory ]]behind while he breaths his last few minutes of oxygen.

* TakeThat: The show's crew clearly greatly enjoys taking real life KarmaHoudini Wernher von Braun down a few pegs, even punctuating it with a clip of the Music/TomLehrer song.