![]() >OV-099 challenger's heat shield is struck by foam from the external tank, shuttle flight rate is high enough that the crew can be transferred to OV-101 enterprise and returned home safely, the uncrewed challenger disintegrates on re-entry, no lives are lost. >shuttle is launching several times per month for lunar missions and freedom assembly, the shuttle is essentially brute forced into being cost effective ![]() >1984: American astronauts walk on the moon for the first time in over a decade >soviets update to a two launch lunar architecture, sending 6 man crews to the surface in a larger capsule and lander, begin development of a lunar base. >soviets launch Mir with a single N-1, Reagan orders for the construction of space station freedom, the American answer to Mir and a staging point for missions to the moon and mars >sts-1 is an unmanned shuttle-c launch, testing systems in preparation of the first crewed flight on Columbia >shuttle-c being developed concurrently with the normal shuttle >it is considered too late to resurrect the Saturn V, NASA picks shuttle-c as it's new moon rocket >soviets land several single man sortie missions and also put the first woman on the moon >this triggers a sputnik tier collective pants shitting in the US, carter calls for a return to the moon >soviet union puts a man on the moon on the 4th of July, 1976, putting a damper on the bicentennial
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