For All Mankind
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Are we recovered fromPolaris?
That disaster-movie sequence was hell on my nerves, so now I think we deserve a little breather.
Ellen Wilsons presidential campaign is entering the home stretch, and she needs to select a running mate already.
pushes for Governor Bragg, a genial arch-conservative Evangelical Christian who doesnt understand the first thing about science.
NASA does not deserve Dani and doesnt begin to understand what it owes her.
Upon Margos return to JSC, she promptly fires Molly and gives the Mars 1996 command assignment to Dani.
Of course, this switcheroo throws Ed for a loop.
Do we know that, Ed?
This offers us another glimpse at how divorce and time have improved Ed and Karens relationship.
Welcome to the club, bud!
Karens big takeaway from this late-night talk is that Ed needs her help.
The differences and tension between NASA and Helios as workplaces are so clear its almost comical.
Its a (multimillion dollar) collective, man!
The more freewheeling spirit is a closer match to what Ed misses about NASA in the golden days.
Now we come to the most troublesome plot strand.
Lets call it Danny Stevens and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Decade.
The reasons for his agony are sympathetic and understandable.
All of which is to say: I get it!
Lets see how that goes!
Speaking of which: How old are the Baldwins supposed to be?
Ed grouses that hell be pushing 70 by the time the 1998 mission to Mars rolls around.
While youre here, can I interest you in the purchase of a bridge in Brooklyn?
