Soviets beat US to first crewed moonwalk in For All Mankind trailer

For All Mankind explores the question, "What if the global space race had never ended?"

Apple just dropped the first full-length trailer for its forthcoming sci-fi space-race series, For All Mankind. Developed by Battlestar Galactica creator Ronald D. Moore, the series is meant to explore an alternate reality where the global space race never really ended.

For All Mankind (not to be confused with the 1989 documentary of the same name) joins a host of other TV series in development for Apple TV Plus, a new video subscription service launching this fall that features Apple original programming-yet another contender in the streaming wars. At a conference in March, Apple CEO Tim Cook called the fledgling streaming platform "the new home for the world's most creative storytellers, featuring exclusive original shows, movies, and documentaries."

Details about the series are scarce, but it will star Joel Kinnaman (of Altered Carbon fame, fresh off his stint as Erik Heller in the TV reboot of Hanna) as Edward Baldwin, possibly a US astronaut, judging from the new trailer footage. It opens with a recreation of the first crewed lunar landing in 1969, with a twist: the first man to set foot on the moon is not NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong but Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov. (The real Leonov was part of the Voskhod 2 mission, becoming the first man to perform a 12-minute spacewalk on March 18, 1965.) "The shock across the nation at this event is just... indescribable," the trailer's fictional news anchor intones.

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