Technocratic America

This is a brief timeline of an America where the Technocracy movement is in the mainstream.

August 1864: An lone rifle bullet hits Abraham Lincoln but he survived.

March 13, 1881: Russian czar Alexander II is assassinated.

1912: Titanic did not sink and U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt is assassinated.

1926: Rocket Pioneer Goddard tests the first liquid fueled rocket.

1930: French rocket scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie immigrates to America.

1932: Technocracy movement is founded by Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch.

1933: Howard Scott did not mess up his speech while Hitler gain power over Germany.

1936: For the first time in American history, the technocratic movement prevailed when Howard Scott became the U.S. Vice President.

1937: Robert Goddard is given necessary funds to improve his rocket design, in the face of a looming war in Europe.

1939: Breakout of World War II.

1940: Walter Rautenstrauch became the U.S. Vice President.

1941: Nazi Germany invades Russia, capturing Moscow for a brief time.

1945: End of World War II. Numerous German rocket scientists are moved to the United States.

1946 to 1949: U.S. President Rautenstrauch decided to let the rocket designer Wernher Von Braun to chase his own dream in this TL. The NASA, which oversees spaceflight activity, is created around this time.

1950: The United States launched the first earth satellite.

1951: U.S. sent the first human into space. Russia collapses under its own weight and Sergei Korolev flees to America as a result.

1960: U.S. constructed an artificial gravity space station called Wheel Space Station I on orbit around Earth.

1963: U.S. conducted the first manned lunar landingwith the Eagle One mission.

1968: U.S. conducted the first manned Martian landing with a winged glider.

1973: Space based solar power supplanted fossil fuels. Serious research on fusion power is commenced.

1991: Canada, USA and Mexico joins together as a North American Union.

2018: Travelling to the Moon is viewed as regular as OTL's transatlantic travel.