The name of the game in For All Mankind isn’t so much about settling on Mars, but rather, capturing a massive asteroid nearby. In the explosive Season 4 premiere episode, “Glasnost,” the multinational space crew led by Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman) and Grigory Kuznetsov (Lev Gorn) latch onto an asteroid with the intention of pushing it across space. If you’ve seen the episode, you know the result of this attempt will define the next several episodes to come. But, what’s interesting about this big plot point is that it’s one of the areas where the normally scientifically accurate sci-fi series had to break a few rules to make the story work.
