Review: For All Mankind, "All In" | Season 3, Episode 3
The shifting timeline of the race to Mars has dire consequences for one character's choices
In last week’s episode, For All Mankind clarified the journey ahead for its alternate history, reframing the quest to reach Mars as a three-way race. And after Helios announced its plans to launch in the 1994 window, NASA and the Soviets are both forced to do the same, even though they know it will take an immense amount of sacrifice.
For NASA, there isn’t any panic: when it’s pointed out that there will be no supplies for the crew given that they were supposed to be sent in the 1994 window, they devise a plan to repurpose some lunar construction for the purpose, and Aleida suggests launching the supplies at Venus instead and slingshotting to Mars a few months ahead of the crew. Her work on the moon meant that the Sojourner craft would be ready to make the earlier trip, and Danielle promises that she can get her crew in order at an accelerated pace. No one’s going to like it, but NASA has the ability to match Helios’ schedule to race to Mars.
But we know from Sergei’s ph…