The Launchbox: PoD 4 - No Apollo 1 Fire
By Andy Cooke January 27th, 1967: the first deaths of NASA astronauts on live operations. A day burned indelibly into the heart of NASA....
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Nov 30, 201911 min read
The Launch Box: PoD 3 - Korolev Lives
By Andy Cooke Aleksandr Vishnevsky was the best surgeon on the staff of Dr Boris Petrovsy, the Minister of Health for the Soviet Union -...
Nov 16, 201910 min read
The Launch Box: PoD 2 - Alan Shepard, first man in space
By Andy Cooke Eisenhower's Priorities After the furore over the Soviet Union "winning" the race to launch the first satellite, President...
Nov 3, 20193 min read
An Introduction to the Lectern series
By Andy Cooke With politics and the effects of disagreements on EU membership and even debates taking centre stage in the UK right now,...
Nov 2, 20199 min read
The Launch Box: PoDs of the Space Age - PoD 1: The first satellite is American
By Andy Cooke This series will look at potential Points of Divergence (PoDs) of the Space Age. From the first launches to the present...
Oct 19, 20199 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 6 - Rebirth
By Andy Cooke To get a world where airships remain as a viable form of transport, the earlier the PoD, the better. We've looked at early...
Oct 5, 20196 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 5 - The Eccentric Tycoon
By Andy Cooke The R101 had failed disastrously, pushing the British Empire out of airship development. Hindenburg ended the chances...
Sep 21, 20197 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 4 - Hydrogen, Helium, and Hindenburg
By Andy Cooke The one airship disaster that everyone knows: "Oh, the humanity!" In OTL, this was the final straw that broke the...
Sep 7, 20197 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 3 - The R101 and the Imperial Air Service [Part 2]
By Andy Cooke In the last article, I covered the Imperial Airship Scheme, the requirements for the R100 and R101, the division of teams...
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Aug 28, 20199 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 3 - The R101 and the Imperial Air Service [Part 1]
By Andy Cooke When looking at disasters in history that pushed OTL away from airships, the most common one to come to mind is the...
Aug 10, 20199 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs - No World War 1
By Andy Cooke In the last article, I looked at how airships could gain traction by earlier development, making them harder to dislodge...
Jul 27, 20197 min read
Airships: Potential PoDs 1 - A Flying Start
By Andy Cooke Having covered the military and civilian roles of airships, air operations, navigation and weather aspects of airship...
Jul 13, 20198 min read
Airships - Part 6: On the Ground
By Andy Cooke The airship's natural home is in the sky. Free to follow the currents of the wind and air, roaming across the infinite...
Jun 29, 20197 min read
Airships: Part 5 - Navigation and Weather
By Andy Cooke Where am I? How fast am I going? How high am I? All questions that you really want to be on top of at all times,...
Jun 15, 201910 min read
Airships: Part 4 - In the air
By Andy Cooke Airships are great for adding colour to your alternate history, and for showcasing that it is different from OTL. But...
Jun 1, 20196 min read
Airships: Part 3 - Civilian Airships
By Andy Cooke After my introduction to airships in alternate history and my article on the roles of military airships if history had...
May 18, 20196 min read
Airships: Part 2 - Military Airships
By Andy Cooke How can you use airships for military purposes - in a world where heavier-than-air aircraft already exist? Anyone trying...
May 4, 20196 min read
Airships: Part One
by Andy Cooke When it comes to signalling that the reader is in an alternate history, airships are superb for the purpose. Whether Harry...
Apr 20, 20196 min read
That was too close... Five natural disasters that may yet happen.
By Andy Cooke As this series comes to an end, I'm going to wrap up by doing something a little different: looking at a wider set of...
Apr 6, 20198 min read
That Was Too Close... Five times Nuclear war DIDN'T break out
By Andy Cooke It is two minutes to midnight, at the time I'm writing this article. It is also eight in the evening, British Summer Time....
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