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1962
September 10: John F. Kennedy, in a speech in Houston, promises to bring an American astronaut on the Moon within the decade.
1969
January: Launch of a soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 95% confidence).
January 20th: Richard M. Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
February 21: In OTL the first launch of a soviet unmanned N1 rocket fails. It was intended to launch a Zond for a lunar flyby, and test the rocket for future manned missions to the Moon.
May: Apollo 10. Proceeds more or less as OTL but crew is Baldwin-Stevens-Talmadge instead of Stafford-Young-Cernan.
June 20 (approximately): Launch of a soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 80% confidence).
June 26: The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon.
July 2: Newsweek has a cover story on the Moon landing. In an interview, Edward Baldwin says "The NASA doesn't have guts anymore".
July 3: In OTL the second launch of a N1 rocket fails destroying the launch site. This stops the soviet lunar program for three years, when two failures cause its cancellation.
July 16: Apollo 11 launch. Proceeds more or less as OTL.
July 18: Senator Ted Kennedy cancels his participation in a celebration party at Chappaquiddick Island and returns to Washington instead. In OTL, Kennedy has a car accident killing Mary Jo Kopechne and his chances to run for US President.
July 20: Aleida and Octavio Rosales cross the border from Mexico to the USA. Almost at the same time, Apollo 11 reaches the Moon.
July 21: Apollo 11 leaves the Moon.
July 24: Apollo 11 returns on Earth.
September: The second Soviet mission lands Anastasia Belikova, first woman on the Moon.
October: Apollo 12 lands in Sinus Medii (in OTL this happens on November 14-24).
1970
April: Apollo 13. Unlike OTL Apollo 13, there is no explosion. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise become sixth and seventh people on Moon.
Early autumn: Apollo 14. The war in Vietnam has ended at an unspecified date and Nixon expects to run for reelection against Ted Kennedy.
October: Unsuccessful Soviet moon landing attempt.
October: Patty Doyle dies during a training exercise.
October 27: NASA presents the first all female Astronaut Group. That same day Molly Cobb swaps Gordon Stevens as LM Pilot for Apollo 15.
1971
October 18: Apollo 15 launches. Molly Cobb becomes the first American woman to launch to space.
October 22: Apollo 15 lands at Shackleton crater. (After having decided to change their landing site in the search for water on the moon.)
October 25: Molly Cobb extracts ice from the bottom of the Shackleton crater.
October 29: Apollo 15 splashes down.
1972
April: Apollo 16.
Summer: Apollo 17 launches.
November: Presidential election, Richard Nixon is defeated by Ted Kennedy by a wide margin.
At his first State of the Union address, Ted Kennedy vows that the Soviet Union will not beat America to Mars as it did the Moon.
Late in the year: Apollo 18.
1973
Early 1973: Apollo 19.
Mid-Summer 1973: Apollo 20.
The Space Shuttle and Sea Dragon programs are approved.
October 12: Jamestown lands at the Shackleton crater. Near the Apollo 15 landing site.
1974
Somewhere in 1974: First launch of Zvezda lunar base:N-1 transports cargo modules to Moon.
Early 1974: Apollo 21 (also known as Jamestown 1) becomes the first crew of the Jamestown base.
Mid 1974 : Apollo 22 (also known as Jamestown 2) launches and arrives at their lunar base. Relieves Apollo 21 crew.
August 24: Apollo 23 fails to launch, due to an explosion at the launchpad. Gene Kranz dies as well as other 11 NASA staff at the launchpad. The crew survives barely. The Equal Rights Amendment is ratified as an amendment to the United States Constitution, when the state of Illinois becomes the 37th state to ratify.
Late August: NASA starts a full investigation about the Apollo 23 explosion.
Late August: Margo becomes Flight Director. She also starts to mentor Aleida.
Late August: Ellen and Larry get married.
Autumn: The Jamestown 2 crew suspects of soviet activity near their base.
Autumn: Gordo suffers psychologically from the prolonged duration of their mission.
Autumn: Danielle Poole and Gordo Stevens return to earth, leaving Ed Baldwin behind.
Autumn: Aleida wins a grand scholarship.
Late November: Shane Baldwin suffers an accident, leaving him brain dead.
Late November: Shane Baldwin dies.
Early December: Mikhail Vasiliev begs Ed Baldwin to let him in Jamestown.
Early December: Octavio Rosales is deported back to Mexico.
December: Apollo 24 fails to complete a TLI burn.
December: Apollo 25 launches to repair Apollo 24's malfunctioning S-IV stage, as well as repairing some satellites. Harrison Liu, Deke Slayton and Molly Cobb perform an EVA to repair the S-IV stage. The S-IV stage fires unexpectedly killing Harrison Liu, injuring Deke Slayton and stranding Molly Cobb. Tracy Stevens rescues Molly Cobb, and Ellen drags Deke back to the capsule of Apollo 24.
December: Ed and Mikhail prepare the LSAM-1 to help Apollo 24 arrive at the lunar surface.
December: Ellen Waverly and Deke Slayton arrive at the moon. Deke dies later from internal bleeding.
December: Ed returns back home alone, aboard the Apollo 24 Command Module. Ellen becomes the Commander of Jamestown.
1976
After the Supreme Court rules in a 5-4 decision that partially-marked ballots from Ohio can be counted, Ronald Reagan receives 713 additional votes and narrowly wins the 1976 election, defeating incumbent Ted Kennedy.
The Soviets launch the N3 Rocket, becoming "the largest rocket ever launched".
The Outer Space Treaty is dissolved.
The United States' Hermes Lander, guided by the orbital observer Hyperion and enveloped in airbags to cushion its landing, touches down on Mars and becomes the first successful landing of a human spacecraft on the planet. The lander releases the robotic Sojourner rover which takes the first pictures of Mars' surface ever recorded by humanity.
1977
First launch of the Sea Dragon from the Pacific Ocean, carrying over 1 million pounds of building supplies, equipment, and fuel for the Jamestown settlement and its mining operations. The Sea Dragon was the size of a small skyscraper and had a 75-foot diameter; its size required that it be constructed in the water using techniques traditionally reserved for freighters. Unlike previous rockets, almost all of Sea Dragon was re-usable for multiple missions.
1978
The Camp David meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt is a failure.
1979
Soviets withdraw from the Afghan border, related to the reprioritization of the space race.
Three Mile Island faces a nuclear meltdown, but is prevented thanks to advanced technology being used for Jamestown.
November: President Reagan orders a surprise rescue mission of the American hostages held in Iran, successfully ending the crisis.
1980
United States lose to the Soviet Union during an ice hockey match during the 1980 Olympics, with a score of 3-10
President Anwar Sadat survives his assassination. On the 6 of October 1981.
Ronald Reagan wins his second term with a narrow margin of virctoy.
December 8: Former Beatles member and superstar solo artist John Lennon survives an assassination attempt in New York City.
Soviets expand Zvezda lunar base.
1981
The US military flies its own Space Shuttle.
Ronald Reagan refuses to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
May 31: Pope John Paul II is assassinated in St. Peter's Square.
1982
Berlin Crisis - Fire is exchanged in West Berlin after a East German tank peruses an East German couple attempting to flee East Berlin. Defense readiness is raised to DEFCON 4.
1983
Ed and Karen discuss a live coverage from the South Pacific Ocean showing a sea launch of a rocket similar to the Sea Dragon carrying a plutonium payload for expansion of the Jamestown colony.
NASA begins using Space Shuttles.
An SRB for Challenger is found with a defect in its O-rings, which may cause the booster to explode if not taken care of May 21: A solar storm forces the crew of Jamestown to evacuate to safety. However two astronauts were exposed to high doses of solar radiation.
An electric vehicle built with battery technology derived from NASA innovation, with a 60 mile range, is commercially available.
The Soviet Union proposes a joint mission between their space program and the United States.
Ed steps down as Chief of the Astronaut Office, letting Molly Cobb take his place.
Korean Air flight 007 is shot down over Sakhalin Island on a flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, killing everyone on board. The Soviets shot it down to keep their impending shuttle launch activities on Sakhalin Island secret.
The Soviets launch their own Space Shuttle, called Buran.
Pathfinder, America's next-generation shuttle, launches for its maiden voyage, on a mission to protect Sea Dragon 17.
Sea Dragon 17 explodes, and is blamed on faulty wiring, putting a stop to Sea Dragon production.
US and Soviet astronauts engage in an armed standoff at the Jamestown lunar base.
Danielle Poole commands successful Apollo-Soyuz mission, which defuses US-Soviet political tensions.
The United States begins an investigation into the Jamestown Incident, in the form of the Rodgers Commission.
1984
President Reagan and Premier Andropov sign a lunar peace treaty dividing the moon into US and Soviet zones.
The Rodgers Commission finalises its report to the Attorney General, finding that Soviet gunfire damaged the Jamestown reactor, while covering up the second reactor for weapons grade plutonium manufacturing.
Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) wins the US presidential election.
1985
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated by the Irish Republican Army.
1986
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes premier of the USSR; he capitalizes on vibrant Soviet economy to gain Soviet influence and allies abroad. Among the foreign businessmen attracted to investing in the USSR's vibrant economy is American real estate mogul Donald Trump.
Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo becomes Mexico's first Marxist President, expanding Soviet influence further into Latin America.
England defeats Argentina in the FIFA World Cup final match.
Dev Ayesa and Richard Hilliard develop the first successful nuclear fusion reactor.
Ellen Wilson runs for the United States Senate in Texas as a Republican.
Sam Cleveland and Karen Baldwin found Polaris Space Tours, a private space tourism company.
India, Turkey, China, and several European nations launch their own space stations.
1987
China opens its first lunar base.
The Beatles kick off a reunion tour in Chicago.
Dev Ayesa's company Helios Aerospace wins NASA contract to mine lunar deposits of Helium-3.
1988
President Hart wins landslide re-election against Republican challenger Pat Robertson.
1989
Scientist James Hansen testifies that global warming has slowed due to reduced carbon emissions, thanks to humanity's shift from fossil fuels to nuclear fusion technology.
1990
Love in the Skies comes out, a movie about Gordo and Tracy Stevens.
NASA launches Thomas Paine space telescope.
Astronaut Danny Stevens, son of Gordo and Tracy Stevens, arrives at Jamestown lunar base.
President Hart declines to defend Kuwait after Iraq invades its territory.
NASA unveils plans for Sojourner 1 spacecraft for the first mission to Mars.
1991
Senator Ellen Wilson (R-TX) announces presidential bid.
1992
Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR) wins Democratic presidential primary.
The Polaris Orbital Hotel, a space station operated by Polaris Space Tours, hosts its first guests, including Ed Baldwin and Danielle Poole attending the wedding of Danny Stevens. The station is nearly evacuated following a malfunction caused by orbital debris, but Danny averts disaster by making critical repairs.
1993
Using Venus as a slingshot, a Sea Dragon mission containing supplies for the Sojourner-1 mission is launched.
1994
NASA launches its Sojourner mission to Mars, slated to last two years.
The USSR launches its Mars-94 mission to Mars.
Helios Aerospace launches a private mission to Mars.
1995
February 8: The North Korea manned spacecraft crash-lands on Mars, killing one of the two astronauts within. The survivor, Lieutenant Colonel Lee Jung-Gil becomes the first man on Mars, though this achievement is unknown publicly due to damage to the communications array.
Due to dust storms on Mars, Sojourner is able to reach Mars before Phoenix can land. Due to this, Sojourner Commander Danielle Poole and Mars-94 Commander Grigory Kuznetsov become supposedly the joint first humans to step foot on Mars.
Helios Base and Happy Valley Base are established.
Early April: On Mars, the Helios drill causes a landslide in an attempt to discover water in a joint Helios and Soviet mission. Due to this, multiple astronauts and cosmonauts are killed, and the Helios MSAM is buried.
Kelly Baldwin becomes the first pregnant woman on Mars.
A five month excavation is undertaken by the American, USSR, and Helios astronauts to recover MSAM.
September 3: President Ellen Wilson comes out as gay, making her the first openly gay President of the United States.
In an attempt to restore MSAM, Danielle Poole and Grigory Kuznetsov undertake a journey to salvage the North Korean lander, discovering it to be manned by a lone North Korean Astronaut, who is forcibly retrieved and brought to Happy Valley base.
September 4: The JSC is destroyed in a bombing, killing Karen Baldwin, Molly Cobb and multiple others.
Due to the reveal of his role in the destruction of the Helios Drill, Danny Stevens is sent to live in the North Korean base in exile away from Happy Valley.
October 1: The Johnson Space Center is renamed to Molly Cobb Space Center in honor of her bravery after the bombing, wherein she repeatedly re-entered to save multiple people in spite of her blindness.
1999
Proposed first launch of Helios' spacecraft Calypso.
1996
November 5: Ellen Wilson surprisingly wins re-election.
1997
The US, USSR, ESA, North Korea, India, Japan, and the Coalition of Communist Countries for Spaceflight (CCCS) form the Mars-7 Alliance (M-7).
1998
The trial of the JSC bombing is held.
2000
January 1: The Year 2000 bug leads to worldwide computer problems and knocks out the computers on the International Space Port.
February: Former Helios CEO Dev Ayesa starts a new robotics company.
March 8: Senator Al Gore gets massive comeback on Super Tuesday.
November 7: Al Gore wins presidential election against George H. W. Bush, becoming 42nd president of the United States.
2001
June: Ellen Wilson and Pam Horton get married in Houston.
2002
February 3: John Lennon plays at the Super Bowl XXXVIW.
September: US president Al Gore declares the Cold War as being over.
2003
March 17: The M-7 Alliance prepares for their first asteroid capture mission, trying to tow asteroid XF Kronos towards Mars' orbit for later mining.
Soviet cosmonaut Grigory Kuznetsov becomes the first human to step foot on an asteroid.
Miles Dale, a former oil rig worker, decides to apply for a job on the Moon. He is accepted, but gets a job on Mars instead.
Avery Stevens celebrates her 9th birthday. Among the guests are Danielle Poole and her husband Corey.
The asteroid mission fails terribly, leading to the deaths of Grigory Kuznetsov and Helios space worker Tom Parker.
The M-7 stop the Asteroid Capture Program until further investigation of the incident. Happy Valley commander George Peters is relieved of duty.
After hearing from the asteroid tragedy, Margo Madison, now living in Moscow, visits Roscosmos to talk to director Catiche, but is rejected by an official.
Some time later: Danielle Poole and Miles Dale depart Earth for Mars aboard the spaceship Unity.
Politburo member Fyodor Korzhenko seizes power over the Soviet Union by a coup d'état, terminating the presidency of Mikhail Gorbachev.
July 2: The Thomas Paine Space Telescope discovers an asteroid decayed from a Jovian trojan orbit. The object gets the designation 2003LC.
The civil war in Saudi Arabia continues to rage. A car bomb exploded in the Kingdom CenterW tower in Riyadh.
November 7: The Houston Sentinel publishes information regarding NASA allowing the abuse of detainees on Mars.
2012
Unknown date: A large mining facility known as Kuznetsov Station exists on the surface of the asteroid Goldilocks.
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1962
September 10: John F. Kennedy, in a speech in Houston, promises to bring an American astronaut on the Moon within the decade.
1969
January: Launch of a soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 95% confidence).
January 20th: Richard M. Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States.
February 21: In OTL the first launch of a soviet unmanned N1 rocket fails. It was intended to launch a Zond for a lunar flyby, and test the rocket for future manned missions to the Moon.
May: Apollo 10. Proceeds more or less as OTL but crew is Baldwin-Stevens-Talmadge instead of Stafford-Young-Cernan.
June 20 (approximately): Launch of a soviet N1 rocket. The CIA informed NASA of the event, reporting it as unmanned (with 80% confidence).
June 26: The Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov becomes the first human to land on the Moon.
July 2: Newsweek has a cover story on the Moon landing. In an interview, Edward Baldwin says "The NASA doesn't have guts anymore".
July 3: In OTL the second launch of a N1 rocket fails destroying the launch site. This stops the soviet lunar program for three years, when two failures cause its cancellation.
July 16: Apollo 11 launch. Proceeds more or less as OTL.
July 18: Senator Ted Kennedy cancels his participation in a celebration party at Chappaquiddick Island and returns to Washington instead. In OTL, Kennedy has a car accident killing Mary Jo Kopechne and his chances to run for US President.
July 20: Aleida and Octavio Rosales cross the border from Mexico to the USA. Almost at the same time, Apollo 11 reaches the Moon.
July 21: Apollo 11 leaves the Moon.
July 24: Apollo 11 returns on Earth.
September: The second Soviet mission lands Anastasia Belikova, first woman on the Moon.
October: Apollo 12 lands in Sinus Medii (in OTL this happens on November 14-24).
1970
April: Apollo 13. Unlike OTL Apollo 13, there is no explosion. Jim Lovell and Fred Haise become sixth and seventh people on Moon.
Early autumn: Apollo 14. The war in Vietnam has ended at an unspecified date and Nixon expects to run for reelection against Ted Kennedy.
October: Unsuccessful Soviet moon landing attempt.
October: Patty Doyle dies during a training exercise.
October 27: NASA presents the first all female Astronaut Group. That same day Molly Cobb swaps Gordon Stevens as LM Pilot for Apollo 15.
1971
October 18: Apollo 15 launches. Molly Cobb becomes the first American woman to launch to space.
October 22: Apollo 15 lands at Shackleton crater. (After having decided to change their landing site in the search for water on the moon.)
October 25: Molly Cobb extracts ice from the bottom of the Shackleton crater.
October 29: Apollo 15 splashes down.
1972
April: Apollo 16.
Summer: Apollo 17 launches.
November: Presidential election, Richard Nixon is defeated by Ted Kennedy by a wide margin.
At his first State of the Union address, Ted Kennedy vows that the Soviet Union will not beat America to Mars as it did the Moon.
Late in the year: Apollo 18.
1973
Early 1973: Apollo 19.
Mid-Summer 1973: Apollo 20.
The Space Shuttle and Sea Dragon programs are approved.
October 12: Jamestown lands at the Shackleton crater. Near the Apollo 15 landing site.
1974
Somewhere in 1974: First launch of Zvezda lunar base:N-1 transports cargo modules to Moon.
Early 1974: Apollo 21 (also known as Jamestown 1) becomes the first crew of the Jamestown base.
Mid 1974 : Apollo 22 (also known as Jamestown 2) launches and arrives at their lunar base. Relieves Apollo 21 crew.
August 24: Apollo 23 fails to launch, due to an explosion at the launchpad. Gene Kranz dies as well as other 11 NASA staff at the launchpad. The crew survives barely. The Equal Rights Amendment is ratified as an amendment to the United States Constitution, when the state of Illinois becomes the 37th state to ratify.
Late August: NASA starts a full investigation about the Apollo 23 explosion.
Late August: Margo becomes Flight Director. She also starts to mentor Aleida.
Late August: Ellen and Larry get married.
Autumn: The Jamestown 2 crew suspects of soviet activity near their base.
Autumn: Gordo suffers psychologically from the prolonged duration of their mission.
Autumn: Danielle Poole and Gordo Stevens return to earth, leaving Ed Baldwin behind.
Autumn: Aleida wins a grand scholarship.
Late November: Shane Baldwin suffers an accident, leaving him brain dead.
Late November: Shane Baldwin dies.
Early December: Mikhail Vasiliev begs Ed Baldwin to let him in Jamestown.
Early December: Octavio Rosales is deported back to Mexico.
December: Apollo 24 fails to complete a TLI burn.
December: Apollo 25 launches to repair Apollo 24's malfunctioning S-IV stage, as well as repairing some satellites. Harrison Liu, Deke Slayton and Molly Cobb perform an EVA to repair the S-IV stage. The S-IV stage fires unexpectedly killing Harrison Liu, injuring Deke Slayton and stranding Molly Cobb. Tracy Stevens rescues Molly Cobb, and Ellen drags Deke back to the capsule of Apollo 24.
December: Ed and Mikhail prepare the LSAM-1 to help Apollo 24 arrive at the lunar surface.
December: Ellen Waverly and Deke Slayton arrive at the moon. Deke dies later from internal bleeding.
December: Ed returns back home alone, aboard the Apollo 24 Command Module. Ellen becomes the Commander of Jamestown.
1976
After the Supreme Court rules in a 5-4 decision that partially-marked ballots from Ohio can be counted, Ronald Reagan receives 713 additional votes and narrowly wins the 1976 election, defeating incumbent Ted Kennedy.
The Soviets launch the N3 Rocket, becoming "the largest rocket ever launched".
The Outer Space Treaty is dissolved.
The United States' Hermes Lander, guided by the orbital observer Hyperion and enveloped in airbags to cushion its landing, touches down on Mars and becomes the first successful landing of a human spacecraft on the planet. The lander releases the robotic Sojourner rover which takes the first pictures of Mars' surface ever recorded by humanity.
1977
First launch of the Sea Dragon from the Pacific Ocean, carrying over 1 million pounds of building supplies, equipment, and fuel for the Jamestown settlement and its mining operations. The Sea Dragon was the size of a small skyscraper and had a 75-foot diameter; its size required that it be constructed in the water using techniques traditionally reserved for freighters. Unlike previous rockets, almost all of Sea Dragon was re-usable for multiple missions.
1978
The Camp David meeting between the leaders of Israel and Egypt is a failure.
1979
Soviets withdraw from the Afghan border, related to the reprioritization of the space race.
Three Mile Island faces a nuclear meltdown, but is prevented thanks to advanced technology being used for Jamestown.
November: President Reagan orders a surprise rescue mission of the American hostages held in Iran, successfully ending the crisis.
1980
United States lose to the Soviet Union during an ice hockey match during the 1980 Olympics, with a score of 3-10
President Anwar Sadat survives his assassination. On the 6 of October 1981.
Ronald Reagan wins his second term with a narrow margin of virctoy.
December 8: Former Beatles member and superstar solo artist John Lennon survives an assassination attempt in New York City.
Soviets expand Zvezda lunar base.
1981
The US military flies its own Space Shuttle.
Ronald Reagan refuses to bail out the Chrysler Corporation.
May 31: Pope John Paul II is assassinated in St. Peter's Square.
1982
Berlin Crisis - Fire is exchanged in West Berlin after a East German tank peruses an East German couple attempting to flee East Berlin. Defense readiness is raised to DEFCON 4.
1983
Ed and Karen discuss a live coverage from the South Pacific Ocean showing a sea launch of a rocket similar to the Sea Dragon carrying a plutonium payload for expansion of the Jamestown colony.
NASA begins using Space Shuttles.
An SRB for Challenger is found with a defect in its O-rings, which may cause the booster to explode if not taken care of May 21: A solar storm forces the crew of Jamestown to evacuate to safety. However two astronauts were exposed to high doses of solar radiation.
An electric vehicle built with battery technology derived from NASA innovation, with a 60 mile range, is commercially available.
The Soviet Union proposes a joint mission between their space program and the United States.
Ed steps down as Chief of the Astronaut Office, letting Molly Cobb take his place.
Korean Air flight 007 is shot down over Sakhalin Island on a flight from New York to Seoul via Anchorage, killing everyone on board. The Soviets shot it down to keep their impending shuttle launch activities on Sakhalin Island secret.
The Soviets launch their own Space Shuttle, called Buran.
Pathfinder, America's next-generation shuttle, launches for its maiden voyage, on a mission to protect Sea Dragon 17.
Sea Dragon 17 explodes, and is blamed on faulty wiring, putting a stop to Sea Dragon production.
US and Soviet astronauts engage in an armed standoff at the Jamestown lunar base.
Danielle Poole commands successful Apollo-Soyuz mission, which defuses US-Soviet political tensions.
The United States begins an investigation into the Jamestown Incident, in the form of the Rodgers Commission.
1984
President Reagan and Premier Andropov sign a lunar peace treaty dividing the moon into US and Soviet zones.
The Rodgers Commission finalises its report to the Attorney General, finding that Soviet gunfire damaged the Jamestown reactor, while covering up the second reactor for weapons grade plutonium manufacturing.
Senator Gary Hart (D-CO) wins the US presidential election.
1985
British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher is assassinated by the Irish Republican Army.
1986
Mikhail Gorbachev becomes premier of the USSR; he capitalizes on vibrant Soviet economy to gain Soviet influence and allies abroad. Among the foreign businessmen attracted to investing in the USSR's vibrant economy is American real estate mogul Donald Trump.
Arnoldo Martinez Verdugo becomes Mexico's first Marxist President, expanding Soviet influence further into Latin America.
England defeats Argentina in the FIFA World Cup final match.
Dev Ayesa and Richard Hilliard develop the first successful nuclear fusion reactor.
Ellen Wilson runs for the United States Senate in Texas as a Republican.
Sam Cleveland and Karen Baldwin found Polaris Space Tours, a private space tourism company.
India, Turkey, China, and several European nations launch their own space stations.
1987
China opens its first lunar base.
The Beatles kick off a reunion tour in Chicago.
Dev Ayesa's company Helios Aerospace wins NASA contract to mine lunar deposits of Helium-3.
1988
President Hart wins landslide re-election against Republican challenger Pat Robertson.
1989
Scientist James Hansen testifies that global warming has slowed due to reduced carbon emissions, thanks to humanity's shift from fossil fuels to nuclear fusion technology.
1990
Love in the Skies comes out, a movie about Gordo and Tracy Stevens.
NASA launches Thomas Paine space telescope.
Astronaut Danny Stevens, son of Gordo and Tracy Stevens, arrives at Jamestown lunar base.
President Hart declines to defend Kuwait after Iraq invades its territory.
NASA unveils plans for Sojourner 1 spacecraft for the first mission to Mars.
1991
Senator Ellen Wilson (R-TX) announces presidential bid.
1992
Governor Bill Clinton (D-AR) wins Democratic presidential primary.
The Polaris Orbital Hotel, a space station operated by Polaris Space Tours, hosts its first guests, including Ed Baldwin and Danielle Poole attending the wedding of Danny Stevens. The station is nearly evacuated following a malfunction caused by orbital debris, but Danny averts disaster by making critical repairs.
1993
Using Venus as a slingshot, a Sea Dragon mission containing supplies for the Sojourner-1 mission is launched.
1994
NASA launches its Sojourner mission to Mars, slated to last two years.
The USSR launches its Mars-94 mission to Mars.
Helios Aerospace launches a private mission to Mars.
1995
February 8: The North Korea manned spacecraft crash-lands on Mars, killing one of the two astronauts within. The survivor, Lieutenant Colonel Lee Jung-Gil becomes the first man on Mars, though this achievement is unknown publicly due to damage to the communications array.
Due to dust storms on Mars, Sojourner is able to reach Mars before Phoenix can land. Due to this, Sojourner Commander Danielle Poole and Mars-94 Commander Grigory Kuznetsov become supposedly the joint first humans to step foot on Mars.
Helios Base and Happy Valley Base are established.
Early April: On Mars, the Helios drill causes a landslide in an attempt to discover water in a joint Helios and Soviet mission. Due to this, multiple astronauts and cosmonauts are killed, and the Helios MSAM is buried.
Kelly Baldwin becomes the first pregnant woman on Mars.
A five month excavation is undertaken by the American, USSR, and Helios astronauts to recover MSAM.
September 3: President Ellen Wilson comes out as gay, making her the first openly gay President of the United States.
In an attempt to restore MSAM, Danielle Poole and Grigory Kuznetsov undertake a journey to salvage the North Korean lander, discovering it to be manned by a lone North Korean Astronaut, who is forcibly retrieved and brought to Happy Valley base.
September 4: The JSC is destroyed in a bombing, killing Karen Baldwin, Molly Cobb and multiple others.
Due to the reveal of his role in the destruction of the Helios Drill, Danny Stevens is sent to live in the North Korean base in exile away from Happy Valley.
October 1: The Johnson Space Center is renamed to Molly Cobb Space Center in honor of her bravery after the bombing, wherein she repeatedly re-entered to save multiple people in spite of her blindness.
1999
Proposed first launch of Helios' spacecraft Calypso.
1996
November 5: Ellen Wilson surprisingly wins re-election.
1997
The US, USSR, ESA, North Korea, India, Japan, and the Coalition of Communist Countries for Spaceflight (CCCS) form the Mars-7 Alliance (M-7).
1998
The trial of the JSC bombing is held.
2000
January 1: The Year 2000 bug leads to worldwide computer problems and knocks out the computers on the International Space Port.
February: Former Helios CEO Dev Ayesa starts a new robotics company.
March 8: Senator Al Gore gets massive comeback on Super Tuesday.
November 7: Al Gore wins presidential election against George H. W. Bush, becoming 42nd president of the United States.
2001
June: Ellen Wilson and Pam Horton get married in Houston.
2002
February 3: John Lennon plays at the Super Bowl XXXVIW.
September: US president Al Gore declares the Cold War as being over.
2003
March 17: The M-7 Alliance prepares for their first asteroid capture mission, trying to tow asteroid XF Kronos towards Mars' orbit for later mining.
Soviet cosmonaut Grigory Kuznetsov becomes the first human to step foot on an asteroid.
Miles Dale, a former oil rig worker, decides to apply for a job on the Moon. He is accepted, but gets a job on Mars instead.
Avery Stevens celebrates her 9th birthday. Among the guests are Danielle Poole and her husband Corey.
The asteroid mission fails terribly, leading to the deaths of Grigory Kuznetsov and Helios space worker Tom Parker.
The M-7 stop the Asteroid Capture Program until further investigation of the incident. Happy Valley commander George Peters is relieved of duty.
After hearing from the asteroid tragedy, Margo Madison, now living in Moscow, visits Roscosmos to talk to director Catiche, but is rejected by an official.
Some time later: Danielle Poole and Miles Dale depart Earth for Mars aboard the spaceship Unity.
Politburo member Fyodor Korzhenko seizes power over the Soviet Union by a coup d'état, terminating the presidency of Mikhail Gorbachev.
July 2: The Thomas Paine Space Telescope discovers an asteroid decayed from a Jovian trojan orbit. The object gets the designation 2003LC.
The civil war in Saudi Arabia continues to rage. A car bomb exploded in the Kingdom CenterW tower in Riyadh.
November 7: The Houston Sentinel publishes information regarding NASA allowing the abuse of detainees on Mars.
2012
Unknown date: A large mining facility known as Kuznetsov Station exists on the surface of the asteroid Goldilocks.
