Since quietly debuting in 2019, For All Mankind has taken quite a few very big leaps into an idyllic, space-forward future. The Apple TV+ series began with a simple hypothetical: What if the Soviet Union, not NASA, was the first to set foot on the moon? But with each season leaping 10 years into the future at a time, co-creators and showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi have been able to reinterpret not only the space race, but also unrelated aspects of pop culture, too.
“I think Ben and I could spend days — and have — just talking about alt-history,” Wolpert tells Inverse. The second season of For All Mankind revealed that John Lennon survived his 1980 assassination; in a brief montage in Season 4, we learn that this universe’s Michael Jordan stuck with his career pivot to baseball.
