# For All Mankind (spoilers)

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> [@Sam\_Stone](#):
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> It wasn’t ‘stupidly wrong’.

Yes, it was. Utterly, moronicly wrong.

> “Okay, so we know it can’t,” Garrett Reisman, a former NASA astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, admitted in an interview with collectSPACE.
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> Reisman, [who made a cameo appearance](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-022621a-for-all-mankind-astronaut-reisman-cameo.html) as the commander of the space shuttle Columbia on its way back from the moon, has served as a technical advisor for the series from its start.
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> “We all pointed out that the shuttle could never actually get to the moon. It had nowhere near enough delta-v,” he said, referring to a change in velocity. “We even did calculations that showed if you filled up the payload bay with hydrazine and fed it to the [orbital maneuvering system] OMS engines, you still couldn’t get to the moon and back without exceeding the payload mass of the orbiter.”

> **['For All Mankind' FAQ: How did the space shuttle fly to the moon? | collectSPACE](http://www.collectspace.com/news/news-042621a-for-all-mankind-space-shuttle-moon.html)**
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> "Our shuttles need to refuel before they burn for the moon..." That one line, from the penultimate episode of the second season of "For All Mankind," seemed to answer one of the most frequently asked questions about the Apple TV+ alternate history...

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