"When Russia put the first man on the moon... the world changed." The #BBCAudioDramaAwards winning #AlternateHistory #ColdWar series from @WirelessTheatre.
London, 1979.
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Houston, come in! RED MOON is back on @BBCRadio4Extra, so join us again on the dark side as MI5 officer Eddie Sloper uncovers a deadly conspiracy. Starring Philip Bulcock, William Hope and the late, great Stephen Critchlow.
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AN ENGLISHMAN'S CASTLE (BBC2, 1978): A chilling alt-history drama about a 70s England where the Nazis won WWII. Kenneth More is a soap opera writer who finds himself unwittingly drawn towards an underground resistance movement...
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In 1977, Anglia TV's April Fools gag ALTERNATIVE 3 was aired, a mockumentary about the rich and powerful deserting the Earth to live on Mars, leaving the rest of us to die as climate change kills the planet. Unfortunately, strike action meant that it wasn't aired until 20 June...
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Syd Mead pictures a space colony under construction, as seen in 1979's "Sentinel."
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Underground colony on the Moon, illustrated by Davis Meltzer in National Geographic, February 1969.
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Astronaut Dave Scott enjoys the view from the open hatch of the Apollo 9 command module, March 1969.
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On the set of DESTINATION MOON, winner for best special effects at the 1952 Academy Awards.
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This week in 1964, President Johnson announced the Air Force YF-12A interceptor (calling it the A-11) as a cover for ongoing testing of the A-12 reconnaissance aircraft.
ALT YF-12 flying over land.
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On this day in 1969, the Soviet Union launched the first test flight of its giant N-1 rocket. The test failed, as did the three that followed, and program was cancelled. A model of the N-1 rocket (pictured on the right next to a model of the Saturn V rocket) is in our collection.
ALT Saturn V rocket model next to N-1 rocket model on display in a museum gallery.
