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=1960-2010= This is one part of the space aspect of this scenario.

August

 * Sovekos is founded as a consolidation of all Soviet space efforts, short for Sovekosmich or Yedinoye Sovetskoye Kosmicheskoy Agentstvo, with Sergei Korolev appointed as Chief Designer.

April

 * Sovekos:
 * Vostok 1 (Gagarin) - First man in space

May

 * NASA:
 * MR-3 “Freedom 7" (Shepard) - First American man in space.

July

 * NASA:
 * MR-4 “Liberty Bell 7” (Grissom)

August

 * Sovekos:
 * Vostok 2 (Titov) - First manned mission lasting a day

February

 * NASA:
 * MA-6 “Friendship 7” (Glenn)

May

 * NASA:
 * MA-7 “Aurora 7” (Carpenter)

July

 * House Committee Hearing on Gender Discrimination (July 1962)
 * These hearings would investigate the possibility of gender discrimination conducted by NASA, and demonstrated changes on how women's rights were changing and leaked into politics.
 * It is decided that Mercury 13 was to be adopted by NASA, after convincing the House Committee on Science and Astronautics subcommittee that women were just as able to go into space. The goal was to establish the first woman in space ahead of the USSR. Increased funding to compensate,1963 budget to be $3 billion [unlike OTL’s 2.5 billion]
 * NASA:
 * Mariner 1

August

 * NASA:
 * Mariner 2
 * Sovekos:
 * Vostok 3 (Nikolayev) - It and Vostok 4 would become the first simultaneous flight of two manned spacecraft.
 * Vostok 4 (Popovich)

October

 * NASA:
 * MA-8 “Sigma 7” (Schirra)

February

 * NASA:
 * MA-9 “ “ (Jerrie Cobb) - First woman in space

April

 * Sovekos:
 * Vostok 5 (Tereshkova) - First Soviet woman in space

May

 * NASA:
 * MA-10 “Faith 7” (Cooper)

August

 * NASA:
 * MA-11 “ “ (Wally Funk)

September

 * Sovekos:
 * Vostok 6 (Bykovsky) - Longest solo manned flight yet, around 7 days total.

October

 * CNES:
 * Launches first cat into space, Félicette

January

 * NASA:
 * MA-13 “ “ (Sarah Gorelick)

March

 * NASA:
 * MA-14 “ “ (Jean Hixon)

June

 * NASA:
 * MA-15 “ “ (Rhea Woltman)

October

 * NASA:
 * MA-16 “ “ (Bernice Steadman)
 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 1 (Komarov, Yegorov, Feoktistov)- It is the first multiman space mission.

November

 * NASA:
 * Mariner 4

January

 * NASA:
 * MA-17 “ “ (Myrtle Cagle)

March

 * NASA:
 * Gemini III (Grissom, Young)
 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 2 (Leonov, Belyayev) - First spacewalk

June

 * NASA:
 * Gemini IV (McDivitt, White)

July

 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 3 (Shonin, Volynov) - 19-day two-man mission to study long-term weightlessness with artificial gravity, medical, military and other experiments.

August

 * NASA:
 * Gemini V (Cooper, Conrad)

November

 * CNES:
 * Launches France’s first satellite, Astérix, with first rocket of the Diamant launch system.

December

 * NASA:
 * Gemini VII (Borman, Lovell)
 * Gemini VI-A (Schirra, Stafford)
 * Pioneer 6 (A)
 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 4 (Beregovoy) - 20-day single-man mission to study long-term weightlessness with artificial gravity, medical, military, and other experiments. It outdoes Bykovsky’s record.

March

 * NASA:
 * Gemini VIII (Armstrong, Scott)

May

 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 5 (Ponomaryova, Solovyova) - 10-day two-woman mission with medical and other experiments and first female EVA-spacewalk

June

 * NASA:
 * Gemini IX-A (Stafford, Cernan)

July

 * NASA:
 * Gemini X (Young, Collins)

August

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer 7 (B)

September

 * NASA:
 * Gemini XI (Conrad, Gordon)

November

 * NASA:
 * Gemini XII (Lovell, Aldrin)
 * Sovekos:
 * Vokshod 6 (Khrunov, Vorunov) - 15-day two-man mission with military and other experiments and multiple spacewalks to test new EVA jet belt.

December

 * NASA:
 * Gemini XIII (Jan, Mar Dietrich) - Only women in Project Gemini. First twins to man a spacecraft.

February

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 1 (Grissom, White, Chaffee) - Cabin fire at launch rehearsal, death of all three.

April

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 1 (Komarov)- Due to mass technical issues, it needed to be saved.
 * Soyuz 2 (Bykovsky, Khrunov, Yeliseyev)- Launched in order to save Komarov

June

 * NASA:
 * Mariner 5

September

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 3 (Beregovoy, Shatalov, Volynov)

December

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer 8 (C)

January

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 4 (Shonin, Gorbatko, Kubasov)

May

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 5 (Dobrovolsky, Kolodin, Volkov)

September

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 6 (Kuklin, Filipchenko, Khrunov) - First manned flight to the moon, first men to escape gravity of a celestial body, first manned mission to use the N1 rocket

October

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 7 (Schirra, Cunningham, Eisele)

November

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer 9 (D)

December

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 8 (Borman, Lovell, Anders) - First to witness and photograph an Earthrise, first Americans to fly to the moon and to escape the gravity of a celestial body.

January

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 7

February

 * NASA:
 * Mariner 6

March

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 9 (McDivitt, Scott, Schweickart)
 * Mariner 7

May

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 10 (Stafford, Young, Cernan)

July

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins) - First manned landing on the moon.
 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 8 (Tereshkova, Bykovsky, Nikolayev) - It becomes the first manned Soviet lunar landing, using the LK lunar lander. It lands approximately a day after Apollo 11 and lands the first woman, Tereshkova, on the moon.

October

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 9 (Komarov, Yeliseyev, Sevastyanov) - Soviet’s 2nd manned lunar landing

November

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 12 (Conrad, Gordon, Bean) - Second American manned landing on the moon.

February

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 10 (Shatalov, Grechko, Yazdovsky) - Soviet’s 3rd manned lunar landing.

April

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 13 (Lovell, Swigert, Haise) [OTL]

May

 * CNES:
 * The first launch of the Vedette rocket system. [Similar to OTL Ariane]

June

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 11 (Rukavishnikov, Leonov, Kolodin)

October

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 12

January

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 14 (Shepard, Roosa, Mitchell)

February

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 13
 * CNES:
 * First French man to be launched into space, Pierre J. du Bucq., through usage of the Vedette rocket system.

April

 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 1 space station is launched into space.
 * Salyut A [OTL Soyuz 10, but were eventually able to dock]

May

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 15 (Scott, Worden, Irwin)
 * Mariner 9

July

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Б [OTL Soyuz 11 in its entirety.]

September

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 16 (Borman (CMD), Funk (LMP), Eisele (CMP)) - Schröter's Valley. First American woman on the moon.
 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 14

November

 * CNES:
 * Second French man launched into space, Jean-Loup Chretien, also via the Vedette rocket system.

December

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 17 (Young, Mattingly, Duke) [OTL 16]

January

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 15

March

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer 10 (F)

April

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 18 (Cernan, Evans, Schmitt) [OTL 17]

July

 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 16
 * The Salyut 2 space station is launched.

August

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 19 (Roosa, Weitz, Lousma) - Marius Hills.
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut B

October

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Г

December

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 20 (Lovell (CMD), McDivitt (LMP), Brand (CMP) - Tsiolkovskiy crater. First manned landing on the lunar dark side

March

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 21 (Gordon (CMD), Carr (LMP), )- Copernicus Crater

April

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer 11 (G)

May

 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 3 space station is launched, 3 days before Skylab. [OTL DOS-3/Salyut 4]

June

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 22 (Cobb (CMD), Robert H. Lawrence (LMP), Cunningham (CMP)) - Tycho Crater. First African-American man in space and on the moon.
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Д (Gubarev, Grechko)

August

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut E (Lazarev, Makarov)

September

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 23 (Haise (CMD), Farouz El-Baz (LMP), Pogue (CMP)) - Hyginus Rille. First Egyptian on the moon.

October

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Ё (Klimuk, Sevastyanov)

November

 * NASA:
 * Mariner 10
 * Sovekos:
 * Soyuz 17 - First crew of the Zvezda lunar base, the first lunar base (albeit non-permanent).

January

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 24 (Myrtle Cagle, John Finley, )- Littrow crater

May

 * NASA:
 * Per the Apollo Extension Series Lunar Base plans, the Lunar Payload Module is launched to the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.
 * Pioneer 12 (H) - Out-of-the-ecliptic mission that took magnetometer observations of Jupiter as it used it as a gravitational slingshot to travel outside the ecliptic.

April

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 25 (Brand, Lenoir, Lind) - Censoninus crater

June

 * NASA:
 * Aphrodite 1 - Wet workshop S-IVB and Block II Apollo CSM on a Saturn V. After evaluating the S-IVB as a long-term habitat, they would separate the CSM and return to Earth.
 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 4 space station is launched into space. [OTL Salyut 3]

July

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 26 (Dick Lawyer, Mar Dietrich, ) - Rendezvous point on the Sea of Tranquility
 * It establishes the first American lunar base (like Zvezda, it was not permanent), Tranquility, by using a LM Shelter, which was essentially an Apollo LM with ascent stage engine and fuel tanks removed and replaced with consumables and scientific equipment for 14 days' extended lunar exploration. It had a 90 day quiescent capability to account for the time in between flights.
 * The LM Shelter was delivered by Apollo 26, which sent a manned Apollo CSM and the LM Shelter towards the moon. As in a standard Apollo flight, the CSM transposed and docked with the LM Shelter, and then pulled it away from the S-IVB stage. After the CSM had braked the combination into lunar orbit, the automated LM Shelter would separate. The crew merely orbited above the moon in the CSM until the automated LM Shelter had landed, and then returned to Earth.
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Ж (Popovich, Artyukhin)

September

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut З (Sarafanov, Dyomin)

October

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 27 (James Taylor, ) - Tranquility base
 * The S-IVB third stage of the Saturn V for operation in lunar space would be modified, providing a 40-day quiescent capability for an unmanned CSM in lunar orbit. Allowing all three astronauts to be landed, by the newly-made LM Taxi, on the Moon for a 30-day stay time. After landing, the crew would shut down the LM Taxi and activate the shelter system. Two weeks later, the LM Taxi would be reactivated and the crew would return to the CSM and back to Earth.

November

 * NASA:
 * Aphrodite 2 - Long duration mission in high orbit. Block III CSM designed for long-term spaceflight, modified S-IVB with Environmental Support Module required for the real Venus flyby. Carried to altitudes of 25,000 miles around Earth, exposing the spacecraft to an environment similar to that of a trip to Venus but steering clear of Earth's radiation belts. Power provided by solar panels, SM fuel cells replaced by batteries that would give enough power during the flight and re-entry.

February

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 28 (Lachlan Macleay, Sarah Gorelick, ) - Lat use of the Tranquility Base

May

 * NASA:
 * Aphrodite 3 - Unmanned rocket sent to test the ability to fly the distance to Venus.

July

 * Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

August

 * NASA:
 * Viking 1

September

 * NASA:
 * Viking 2

October

 * NASA:
 * Apollo 29 - Gassendi crater

November

 * NASA:
 * Aphrodite 4 (Lonnie Hammargren,, , ) - First manned flyby of Venus (four months later in March of 1976). Block IV CSM, updated S-IVB with large radio antenna for communication with Earth, and a set of small probes that would be released to Venus' surface, in which the crew would be 3000 miles above. After hours near the surface, they would begin their trip back to Earth, but before returning they would perform astronomical studies of the Sun and Mercury, as they approached within 0.3 AU
 * Probes (OTL Pioneer 13/Venus Multiprobe):
 * Large Probe (300 kg)
 * North Probe (75 kg)
 * Night Probe (75 kg)
 * Day Probe (75 kg)

January

 * NASA:
 * Using ALSS hardware a LEM Truck with a MOLAB rover is delivered to the Kepler crater.

March

 * NASA:
 * Hecate 1 (Rhea Woltman )- Kepler crater. First mission of the Hecate Program, a successor to Apollo, and to carry on the mission of establishing non-permanent lunar bases/extended lunar stays. It is named given that Hecate was the goddess of crossroads and associated with the moon.
 * After setting up a geophysical monitoring station two astronauts would embark on a 14-day, 400-km exploratory traverse, studying six identified geological features. The crew would then return to Earth.
 * Meant to survey Kepler Crater in preparation for the base.
 * First use of MOLAB

May

 * NASA:
 * The launch of a 7,700 kg cargo to the Kepler crater, by NASA, in an unmanned shelter-logistics Saturn V, using the Service Module (SM) for lunar descent, in addition to the LM descent stage. The Apollo Spacecraft-LM Adapter (SLA) would be outfitted as a mini-base that was better than the LM Shelter. The LM ascent stage was replaced by the SLA mini-base and the position of the SM was reversed. The SLA mini-base carried supplies for a 192 day on the lunar surface and 5,090 kg cargo, amounting to a total payload weight of 7,700 kg. This meant that successive crews of two astronauts could stay for 96 days each. The SLA included a Lunar Roving Vehicle (LRV) and a Lunar Flying Unit (LFU) for the astronauts. Its cargo included 2,700 kg of mobility fuel for the LRV and LFU, plus 1,800 kg of scientific equipment. The base would be known as, but informally as “Craterhole”.

June

 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 5 space station is launched.

July

 * NASA:
 * Hecate 2 - Kepler Crater
 * It would deliver two astronauts in an LM Taxi to the mini-base. The third astronaut would return in the CSM back to Earth, instead of circling for 96 days. Three months later, another mission would be launched to return the lunar base crew to Earth.
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut И [OTL Soyuz 21]

October

 * NASA:
 * Hecate 3 (Shannon Lucid, ) - Kepler crater. Last usage of the base at the Kepler Crater.
 * The first surface crew returns to Earth in this mission's CSM. The new crew would use a newly made model of the LM Taxi
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Й [OTL Soyuz 23]

February

 * NASA:
 * The first captive flight of the prototype Space Shuttle, Enterprise.
 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut К [OTL Soyuz 24]

June

 * NASA:
 * First crewed captive flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise.

July

 * Sovekos:
 * Salyut Л (Berezovoy, Lisun)

August

 * NASA:
 * First free flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
 * Viking 2

September

 * NASA:
 * Viking 1
 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 6 space station is launched into space.

March

 * NASA:
 * Skylab B0 - launch of Skylab B, which is a redesign of the original to fix problems regarding comfortability (adding of a resupply and garbage disposal). [OTL Skylab B is called Skylab 2].
 * Skylab B1 (McCandless, Albert H. Crews, Crippen) - It is the first crew of Skylab-B.

May

 * NASA:
 * Pioneer Venus Orbiter

June

 * NASA:
 * Skylab B2 (Richard Truly, Fullerton, Peterson) - [Performs OTL STS-2 experiments]

October

 * NASA:
 * Skylab B3 (Overmyer, Engle, Lousma) - [Performs OTL STS-3 experiments]

January

 * NASA:
 * Skylab B4 (Hartsfield,, ) - Last mission of Skylab B. Last use of the original Saturn V line (this being its third production run).

April

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Young, Crippen. The maiden flight of Space Shuttle Columbia. The first orbital flight of the Space Shuttle program. External tank like OTL, however 2 SRBs replaced by 5 UA1205 boosters from Titan IIIC]

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Engle, Truly. Second flight of the Columbia orbiter, it would test the Canadarm.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Lousma, Fullerton. Third flight of the Columbia, first usage of the Spacelab pallet. Continued testing of Canadarm, as well as extensive thermal testing. First mission to land at White Sands Space Harbor, as a result of flooding at Edwards AFB.

April

 * Sovekos:
 * The Salyut 7 space station is launched into space

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Mattingly, Hartsfield. Final test flight of the Columbia.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brand, Overmyer, Allen, Lenoir. First officially “operational” shuttle mission, first to deploy a communications satellite into space.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Weitz, Bobko, Musgrave, Peterson. Maiden orbital flight of the Space Shuttle Challenger. First Space Shuttle mission to see a spacewalk, usage of the EMU, and deployed the first TDRS, TDRS-1, into space.

April

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Crippen, Hauck, Fabian, Ride, Thagard. Columbia flight. First woman to ride the Space Shuttle.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Truly, Brandenstein, Bluford, Gardner, Thornton. Challenger flight.

August

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Young, Shaw, Garriot, Parker, Merfbold, Lichtenburg. Columbia flight. First non-American citizen to fly on the Space Shuttle. First usage of the Spacelab module.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli, Payton. Challenger flight. First classified Department of Defense mission.

December

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brand, Gibson, McCandless, Stewart, McNair. Columbia flight. [OTL STS-41-B] First untethered spacewalk.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Crippen, Scobee, Hart, Van Hoften, Nelson. Challenger flight.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Hartsfield, Coats, Mullane, Hawley, Resnik, Walker. Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Discovery. TDRS satellite deployed.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Crippen, McBride, Sullivan, Ride, Leestma, Scully-Power, Garneau. Challenger flight. First shuttle mission to carry a crew of 7, two women, a man with a beard, an Australian-born person, and a Canadian.

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, Hoffman. Discovery flight. [June launch attempt like OTL 41-D]

October

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Mattingly, Shriver, Onizuka, Buchli, Payton. Challenger flight. Second DoD payload.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Hauck, Walker, Allen, Fisher, Gardner. Discovery flight. [OTL 51-A] First time shuttle deployed two communications satellites.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Overmyer, Gregory, Lind, Thagard, Thornton, van den Berg, Wang. Challenger flight. Second flight of Spacelab.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Bobko, Williams, Seddon, Griggs, Hoffman, Baudry, Garn. Discovery flight. Brake damage, ruptured tire during landing. All subsequent landings at Edwards Air Force Base until nose wheel steering implemented.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brandenstein, Creighton, Nagel, Fabian, Lucid, Jarvis, Walker. Challenger flight.

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Fullerton, Bridges, Henize, Musgrave, England, Acton, Bartoe. Discovery flight. [OTL 51-F] Spacelab 2 module. Helium-cooled Infrared telescope used as well as testing of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in space.

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Bobko, Grabe, Hilmers, Stewart, Pailes. Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Atlantis

October

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Hartsfield, Nagel, Dunbar, Buchli, Bluford, Furrer, Messerschmid, Ockels. Challenger flight. Spacelab mission funded and directed by West Germany, payload operations at German Space Operation Center in Oberpfaffenhofen. Largest amount of people yet on Space Shuttle, 8.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Shaw, O’Connor, Ross, Cleave, Spring, Walker, Neri Vela, Peralta y Fabi. Discovery flight. First two Mexicans to ride the Space Shuttle.

January

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Scobee, Smith, Onizuka, Resnik, McNair, McAuliffe. Atlantis flight. First teacher in space, McAuliffe would teach two 15-minute lessons. McNair records saxophone solo for Jean-Michel Jerre’s upcoming album Rendez-Vous, and would take part in a concert through live shuttle feed.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Gibson, Bolden, George Nelson, Hawley, Chang-Diaz, Bill Nelson, Cenker. Challenger flight. First Costa Rican in space.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: McBride, Richards, Leestma, Hoffman, Parker, Durrance, Parise. Discovery flight. ASTRO-1 mission, used to study Halley’s Comet in conjunction with Halley Armada.

May

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Hauck, Bridges, Hilmers, Lounge, George Nelson. Atlantis flight. Deployed Ulysses space probe. Robin Williams delivers wake-up call of Good Morning, Atlantis. Fastest ever artificially-accelerated object.
 * Crew: Walker, Grabe, Thagard, van Hoften. Columbia flight. Deployed Galileo probe. [High-gain antenna deployment works] It would take 2 years to get to Jupiter thanks to Centaur G.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Coats, Blaha, Springer, Fisher, Buchli, Sudarmono, Wood, Farrimond. Challenger flight. Deployed three satellites. First Indonesian astronaut in space.

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Crippen, Guy Gardner, Mullane, Ross, David Gardner, Aldridge, Brett Watterson. Discovery flight. DOD mission, first to be flown from Space Launch Complex 6 at Vandenberg Air Force Base. First shuttle launched into polar orbit.

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Shaw, McCulley, Leestma, Brown, Adamson, Casserino, Skantze. Atlantis flight. DOD mission. First flight of human skull, test penetration of radiation into human skull.

October

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brand, Griggs, Stewart, Gariott, Nicollier, Lichtenburg, Lampton, Stevenson. Challenger flight. Spacelab mission combining EOM-1 and EOM-2.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Konrad, Covey, . Discovery flight. First American journalist in space.

December

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Charles E. Jones, Onizuka, Shriver, Buchli, Payton. Columbia flight. DOD mission.

January

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Nordsieck. Atlantis flight. ASTRO-2 mission.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Robert Wood. Challenger flight. McDonnell Douglas payload.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Gaffney, Philips, MacLean. Discovery flight. First Spacelab Life Science mission.

April

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Williams, McCulley, Lucid, Chang-Diaz, Baker. Columbia flight. Navstar GPS satellite.

May

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Nordsieck. Atlantis flight. ASTRO-3 mission.

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brand, Gardner, Hoffman, Lounge, Parker, Durrance, Parise. Discovery flight. Deployed TDRS satellite. First use of Voice Control Unit. 5 materials science and 3 life science experiments carried out: aggregation of red blood cells, Protein Crystal Growth, Titanium grain formation, controlling crystal growth with a membrane,

October

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Gregory, Blaha, Carter, Musgrave, Kathryn Thornton. Challenger flight. DOD mission.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Mohri, Mukai, . Discovery flight. Spacelab-J mission

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . Challenger flight. DOD mission.
 * Ares - First American manned Martian orbit and landing. After a six month flight, the astronauts would spend 15 days in orbit to prepare for the 110 thousand pound Mars Excursion Module (MEM) for landing in Terra Cimmeria. and would remain in the ship whilst, , and would land and explore for 45 days. On a rotating basis, one person would stay in the MEM while two people would explore traveling on separate Ares Martian Roving Vehicle (upgraded version of the Lunar version). (Which could travel 10 miles per hour and up to 100 miles overall). The three landing members would use the Backup Pressurized Volume as a quarantine facility in case of Martian bacteria. It would take 330 days for the crew to return to Earth

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Walker, Grabe, Lee, Thagard, Cleave. Challenger flight. Deployed Magellan probe.

July

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Hughes-Fulford. Discovery flight. Second Spacelab Life Science mission.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Coats, Blaha, Springer, Bagian, Buchli. Discovery flight. Shuttle Student Involvement Program experiments: four live rats with pieces of bone removed to see space’s effects on bone healing, 32 fertilized chicken eggs to see space’s effects on those. Space Station Heat Pipe Advanced Radiator Element tested.

December

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . Columbia flight. Cosmic Background Explorer deployment.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Creighton, Casper, Thuot, Hilmers, Mullane. Challenger flight. DOD Mission.

May

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Richards, Cabana, Melnick, Shepard, Akers. [OTL STS-41 experiments.] Maiden flight of the Endeavour shuttle.

August

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Shriver, Bolden, McCandless, Hawley, Sullivan. Columbia flight. Deployment of the Hubble Space Telescope into space, however, it was noticed that its main mirror was grounded incorrectly, resulting in it having to be fixed.

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Covey, Culbertson, Meade, Springer, Gemar. Atlantis flight.

January

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Brandenstein, Wetherbee, Dunbar, Low, Ivins. Atlantis flight. Retrieval of the Long Duration Exposure Facility. First use of MLP-3 by the Shuttle program. New record of Shuttle time in space, 12 days, resulting in research that would allow for prolonged time in space, an orbiter kit for up to 18 days that would debut two years later.

April

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Covey, Bowersox, Thornton, Nicollier, Hoffman, Musgrave, Akers. Columbia flight. First Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission, new camera and corrective optics.

June

 * NASA
 * Ares - It was the second American manned Martian landing, and followed the same procedure as the first. It landed near . The surface crew consisted of . However, on day 28 of surface operations, ‘s AMRV would lose power, resulting in having to save him. Due to the amount of weight on one AMRV, the two did not make it back to the MEM before nightfall, and froze to death., who was within the MEM at the time, made an emergency withdrawal to the orbiter and the crew would begin a return to Earth. As a result of this mission, and the collapse of the USSR, it would take about 2 decades until the next manned Mars mission.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Bolden, Reightler, Davis, Sega, Chang-Diaz, Krikalev. Challenger flight. The first mission of the Shuttle-Mir Program.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . Challenger flight. First use of Aft Cargo Carrier, testing its capabilities, which was attached to the external tank, and would dramatically increase shuttle payload.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . The First Element Launch of Space Station Freedom.

February

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Wetherbee, Collins, Harris, Foale, Voss, Titov. Challenger flight. Second mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

May

 * NASA:
 * Asteroid Retrieval Mission - Sees the first asteroid moved to Earth’s orbit by humanity, allowing for the asteroid mining industry to take off in the mid 2010s. The process saw a vehicle land and retrieve a boulder 4 meters in diameter from the larger asteroid, [OTL (341843) 2008 EV5] and place it in lunar orbit.

June

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Gibson, Precourt, Baker, Harbaugh, Dunbar, Solovyev/Strekalov, Budarin/Dezhurov, Thagard. Challenger flight. Third mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . Space Station Freedom achieves Man-Tended Capability.

November

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Cameron, Halsell, Hadfield, Ross, McArthur. Discovery flight. Fourth mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

March

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Chilton, Searfoss, Sega, Clifford, Godwin, Lucid. Discovery flight. Fifth Shuttle-Mir mission

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Readdy, Wilcutt, Apt, Akers, Walz, Blaha/Lucid. Endeavour flight. Sixth mission of the Shuttle-Mir program.

January

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Baker, Jett, Wisoff, Grunsfeld, Ivins, Linenger/Blaha. Atlantis flight. Seventh Shuttle-Mir mission

May

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Precourt, Collins, Clervoy, Noriega, Lu, Kodakova, Foale/Linenger. Endeavour flight. Eighth Shuttle-Mir mission.

September

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Wetherbee, Bloomfield, Titov, Parazynski, Chretien, Lawrence, Wolf/Foale. Atlantis flight. Ninth Shuttle-Mir mission.

January

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: Wilcutt, Edwards, Reilly, Anderson, Dunbar, Sharipov, Thomas/Wolf. Endeavour flight. Tenth Shuttle-Mir mission.

April

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Crew: . Space Station Freedom achieves Permanent Manned Capability, with Assured Crew Return Vehicle

August

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Space Shuttle Columbia disaster. Columbia was meant to bring home the first crew of Space Station Freedom, but during re-entry its heat-shield would be penetrated resulting in the destruction of the spacecraft and death of 6 astronauts. All Space Shuttle missions would be halted until February 1999.
 * As a result, the Clinton administration would move to start the Space Shuttle Mark II as a safer, more modern successor to the original Space Shuttle Program. It would continue funding and testing of Lockheed Martin’s X-33, and NASA’s X-38 and HL-20.

November
Beginning of Expedition 1 (November 1999-March 2000): SSF’s skeleton crew of Bill Shepard and Ken Bowersox would work with Mir 2’s skeleton crew of Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Kirkalev to handle the combination of the two space station.
 * NASA:
 * Space Station Freedom docks permanently with Russian Space Station Mir 2 to form the International Space Station

December

 * Additional crew members join ISS Expedition 1: Susan Helms (NASA), Jim Voss (NASA), Yury Usachov (Roscosmos).

January

 * ISS Expedition 1
 * Susan Helms and Jim Voss make records for the longest ever spacewalk of 9 hours and 11 minutes.

March

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 2 (March-July 2000): would replace the 7 members of the Expedition 1 crew.

July

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 3 (July- November 2000)

November

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 4 (November 2000-March 2001)

March

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 5 (March 2001-July 2001)

July

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 6 (July 2001-November 2001): Frank Culbertson (NASA), Vladimir Dezhurov, Mikhail Tyurin , would replace the Expedition 5 crew. Culbertson was the only American not on Earth during 9/11.

November

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 7 (November 2001-March 2002)
 * Unique view of Leonid Meteor Shower days before Expedition 6 left.

March

 * Beginning of ISS Expedition 8 (March 2002-July 2002)

December

 * NASA:
 * Space Shuttle
 * Last flight of the original Space Shuttle program.

September

 * NASA:
 * Dawn

February

 * SpaceX:
 * In the 100th anniversary year of the Model T, the first affordable automobile, SpaceX launches the Tesla Roadster, the first all-electric car to use a lithium-ion battery, into space. It becomes the first consumer car in space. In the driver seat is a test dummy, Starman, who is wearing SpaceX's spacesuit, while David Bowie songs would play in the background.

2009
=2010-2060= This is another part of the space aspect of this scenario.

May

 * JAXA:
 * Akatsuki

February

 * LES-1, which last transmitted signals in 1967, is caught producing signals by an amateur radio enthusiast. Its revival is explain through the failing of the batteries allowing for them to charge and produce signals whilst in sunlight.

July

 * NASA:
 * ARES - Flew for 2 hours

November

 * NASA:
 * MAVEN

December

 * JAXA:
 * Hayabusa2

2016

 * NASA:
 * TIME - arrived in 2023. First nautical exploration of ET sea, Ligeia Mare.

December

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - On Christmas Day, launched on a 13 and a half year flyby flight to Quaoar, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

August

 * NASA:
 * Hera - Launched on a three month flyby flight to the asteroid Juno.

October

 * ESA:
 * BepiColombo (collab with JAXA)

December

 * NASA:
 * With NASA funding, the joint Honeybee Robotics-University of Central Florida-Embry-Riddle Aeronautic University project WINE (World is Not Enough)’s harvesting and propulsion were successfully tested.

2020

 * NASA:
 * Life Investigation for Enceladus - aerogel collector, makes it back to Earth 14 years later.


 * NASA:
 * AVIATR - flew for 3 years around Titan, HD pictures of Titan’s surface

June

 * BRSA:
 * Asagumo - Spider-like rover, sent on a 10 day long mission to 3D LIDAR map terrain. Smallest lunar rover ever, 10 cm tall, 10 cm wide. 1.3 kg. Lands on pit in Lacus Mortis plain, enters lava tubes. Test for further versions of the rover.

July

 * NASA:
 * Mars2020: Perseverance and Ingenuity

August

 * NASA:
 * PADME - Makes 16 Phobos flybys, 4 Deimos flybys, arrives March 2021

December

 * NASA:
 * Zeus 1 - Makes first manned landing on Callisto in January 2023 and establishes the first base on Callisto (albeit non-permanent) for a 120 day stay, returning to Earth by June 2025.

February

 * AEB:
 * ASTER

July

 * NASA:
 * DART

October

 * NASA:
 * Lucy

November

 * NASA:
 * JET - May 2030 Saturn arrival, using Earth, Venus flyby

2022

 * NASA:
 * Enceladus Life Finder - 3 years, fly by 10 times over south pole water plumes. Arrived in 2032.

May

 * ESA:
 * JUICE - arrives at Jovian system in October 2029

June

 * NASA:
 * Europa Clipper (arrives at the end of 2024)

July

 * NASA:
 * Psyche
 * Athena (shares a rocket with Psyche) - Launched on a 2 year single flyby flight to Pallas

October

 * JAXA:
 * DESTINY

July

 * BRSA:
 * - Swarm of 50 Asagumo rovers, 65 kg in total. Explore and map lava tubes in 3D, using swarm intelligence.

2024

 * NASA:
 * THEO - 1 year science phase


 * NASA:
 * FIRE - arrives in 2030, 4 year mission time with 10 flybys

February

 * NASA:
 * Christiaan (OTL Oceanus) - arrives in 2034. 2 year orbit of Saturn, flying by Titan, then 2 year orbit of Titan

May

 * NASA:
 * CORSAIR

June

 * NASA:
 * CONDOR

August
CAESAR
 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 16 year flyby flight to Makemake, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

November

 * NASA:
 * SPRITE - arrives in November 2034

2025

 * NASA:
 * Europa Lander - arrives in 2030 for a 29 day mission, using all 14 ICEE-2 awardee instruments and self-destructing at the end of its mission


 * NASA:
 * Moon Diver - two-wheeled rover, Axel

February

 * NASA:
 * Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

September

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 14 and a quarter year flyby flight to Haumea, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

2026

 * NASA:
 * IVO - arrives in 2031


 * Roscosmos:
 * Venera-D


 * Roscosmos:
 * Laplace-P - landed on Ganymede in 2030

April

 * JAXA:
 * OKEANOS
 * NASA:
 * Dragonfly - arrived in December 2034. VTOLs, study prebiotic chemistry and habitability.
 * Trident - gravity assist flyby of Jupiter in 2032, flyby Neptune in June 2038, target: Triton

September

 * ESA:
 * MUSE - Uranus orbiter with 2044 arrival with entry atmospheric probe

2027

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 10 year flyby flight to Ixion, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

2030

 * NASA:
 * - Pluto orbiter, it would arrive in late 2037 and orbit until 2042, where it would make a final flyby around Charon and leave Pluto’s orbiter for another Kuiper Belt Object


 * NASA:
 * OCEANUS - Uranus orbiter, arrives in 2041.

November

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 25 year flyby flight to Gonggong, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

April

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 24 year flyby fight to Eris, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

May

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 24 and a half year flyby flight to Sedna, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

2034

 * ESA:
 * ODINUS - Freyja: Neptune orbiter, Freyr - Uranus orbiter

2035

 * NASA:
 * New Horizons - Launched on a 12 year flight to Varuna, using a gravity assist from Jupiter

2039

 * NASA:
 * Zephyr

November
=General Timeline= This is one part of the non-space aspect of this scenario.
 * NASA:
 * - Launched on a 20 year flight to Ixion for a planned orbit, using a gravity assist by Jupiter

January

 * As one of his last decrees, Joseph Stalin bans the agricultural theory of Lysenkoism, and would free the geneticists imprisoned, as well as imprisoning Lysenko and all geneticists that supported his ideas, this would be spread to the Warsaw Pact states. In it he declares that Lysenko had been holding the USSR back. This would penultimately allow the USSR to participate in the Agricultural Revolution.

February

 * Khrushchev would make a speech, where he advocated for an Iowa-style corn belt in the Soviet Union, with Soviet delegates visiting the state later in the year. They would meat Roswell Garst, who became good friends with Khrushchev and would advise him on what to do. In the end, Soviet escapades with corn will fail.

June

 * Over half a year after the commissioning of the Soviet computer Strela, the Ministry of the Electronics Industry is established, ending the Ministry of Radio Technology's primary role in the Soviet computer industry. Khrushchev would emphasize funding for the Soviet electronics industry and the importance of the funding of its computer industry.

January

 * US President Ronald Reagan makes his 1984 State of the Union Address
 * He mentions constructing Space Station Freedom. [Cross between OTL Revised Baseline Configuration design of Space Station Freedom and US Orbital Segment of the ISS]

December

 * The USSR collapses/is dissolved, being succeeded by the Russian Federation.

May

 * Released to theaters: Armageddon [OTL], Deep Impact

August

 * Armageddon is released to VHS, DVD by Touchstone Home Video, quickly becoming Buena Vista Home Entertainment’s most selling live action film

May

 * Senate Amendment 1583 to the House Bill 6172, or the "USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020" passes the Senate 60-37-3. [Sanders votes yes for it, appearing in a hazmat suit for this vote, which becomes a big meme]

July

 * North Carolinan Senator Richard Burr resigns.

November

 * The 2020 US Elections are held:
 * Presidential:
 * The Democratic ticket of Joe Biden and Catherine C. Masto defeat the Incumbent Republican ticket of Donald Trump and Mike Pence.
 * Gubernatorial:
 * Senate:
 * AL: Doug Jones (D) def., Dem Gain
 * AZ (Special): Mark Kelly (D) def. Martha McSally (R), Dem Gain
 * CO: John Hickenlooper (D) def. Cory Gardner (R), Dem Gain
 * GA: Jon Ossoff (D) def. Davd Perdue (R), Dem Gain
 * GA (Special): Raphael Warnock (D) def. Kelly Loeffler (R), Dem Gain
 * IA: Theresa Greenfield (D) def. Joni Ernst (R), Dem Gain
 * KS: Barbara Bollier (D) def. Kris Kobach (R), Dem Gain
 * KY: Charles Booker (D) def. Mitch McConnell (R), Dem Gain
 * ME: Sara Gideon (D) def. Susan Collins (R), Dem Gain
 * MA: Ed Markey (D) def., Dem Hold
 * MT: Steve Bullock (D) def. Steve Daines (R), Dem Gain
 * NM: Ben Ray Lujan (D) def. (R), Dem Gain
 * NC: Cal Cunningham def. Thom Tillis (R), Dem Gain
 * NC (Special):, Dem Gain
 * SC: Jaime Harrison (D) def. Lindsey Graham (R), Dem Gain
 * TX: Royce West (D) def. John Cornyn (R), Dem Gain
 * House:
 * AL-01: Bill Hightower (R) def., GOP Hold
 * CA-08: Jay Obernolte (R) def., GOP Hold
 * CA-50: Ammar Campa-Najjar (D) def. Darrell Issa (R), Dem Gain
 * CA-53: Georgette Gomez (D) def. Sara Jacobs (D), Dem Hold
 * CO-03: Diane Mitsch Bush (D) def. Scott Tipton (R), Dem Gain
 * HI-02: Kai Kahele (D) def., Dem Hold
 * IN-5: Christina Hale (D) def., Dem Gain
 * IA-2: Rita Hart (D) def., Dem Hold
 * KS-02: Michelle De La Isla (D) def., Dem Gain
 * KY-06: Mike Broihier (D) def. Andy Barr (R), Dem Gain
 * MD-07: Maya R. Cummings (D) def., Dem Hold
 * MA-04: Alan Khazei (D) def., Dem Hold
 * MI-03: Lynn Afendoulis (R) def. Justin Amash (L), GOP Gain
 * MI-06: Jon Hoadley (D) def. Fred Upton (R), Dem Gain
 * MN-01: Dan Feehan (D) def. Jim Hagedorn (R), Dem Gain
 * MT-at-large: Kathleeen Williams (D) def. Matt Rosendale (R), Dem Gain
 * NC-02: Deborah K. Ross (D) def., Dem Gain
 * NC-06: Kathy Manning (D) def., Dem Gain
 * NE-02: Kara Eastman (D) def. Don Bacon (R), Dem Gain
 * NJ-02: Brigid Harrison (D) def. Jeff Van Drew (R), Dem Gain
 * TX-10: Mike Siegel (D) def. (R), Dem Gain
 * TX-21: Wendy Davis (D) def. Chip Roy (R), Dem Gain
 * TX-22: Sri Preston Kulkarni (D) def., Dem Gain
 * TX-23: Gina Ortiz Jones (D) def. (R), Dem Gain
 * TX-24: Candace Valenzuela (D) def., Dem Gain
 * TX-28: Jessica Cisneros (D) def., Dem Hold
 * TX-31: MJ Hegar (D) def. John Carter (R), Dem Gain

November

 * The 2022 US Elections are held.
 * Governors:
 * Georgia: Stacey Abrams (D) def. Brian Kemp (R), Dem Gain
 * Senate:
 * California: Ro Khanna (D) def. Kamala Harris (D), Dem Hold
 * New York: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D) def., Dem Hold
 * House:
 * Retirements:
 * Anna Eshoo (D)
 * Ed Case (D)
 * California:
 * Evan Low (D) def.
 * Hawaii:
 * Beth Fukumoto (D) def.

January

 * The 118th Congress convenes. Elizabeth Warren replaces Chuck Schumer as Senate Majority Leader.

November

 * The 2023 US Elections are held.
 * Mayoral:
 * San Francisco: Jane Kim def.

March

 * As a result of the lost of a congressional district and an electoral vote from the 2022 reapportionment, the Michigan Legislature bipartisanly ratifies the Congressional Apportionment Amendment, being the 12th state to do so and the first state to ratify the amendment in almost 233 years, it is the last of the original 12 amendments to go unratified.