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 * Great White South: Antarctica becomes ice free after the last ice age, allowing colonialism on the continent.
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 * Nasserism in Arabia: Nasser's ideas of a united Arab world is successful.
 * New Union: The August Coup is foiled and Gorbachev transforms the Soviet Union away from communism.
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 * Russian America: War between Russia and Spain breaks out over Fort Ross. Russia wins the war, allowing for a Russian nation in North America.
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 * Two Americas: The American Civil War becomes a stalemate, ending with the Confederate States becoming its own nation, with the United States next door.
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 * Chartist Britain: Britain breaks out into revolution in the 1830s, and a "British Republic" is born.
 * Dalnevostok: After Japan retreats from the Far Eastern Republic, the nation does not rejoin with Russia, but becomes a Soviet Republic of its own.
 * Frankfurter Deutschland: The Frankfurt Parliament is treated with more optimism, and Prussian Kaiser Frederick William IV accepts the offer to become Kaiser of a united and democratic German Empire.
 * Roosevelt's Germany: After Germany's defeat in World War II, the world agrees to divide Germany into six nations, as opposed to occupation zones.
 * Space Race Draw: Kennedy does not die, and the United States embark on a joint mission to the Moon with the Soviet Union.
 * Unorganized Antarctica: The Antarctic Treaty is never signed, leading to an unorganized Antarctica.
 * Venusian Haven: Venus evolves to actually become the Sister Planet.
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 * Zàijiàn Mao: China would follow the same path as the Soviet Union, and all of the communist world will collapse.


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 * Confederate Provinces of Canada: Canada becomes an Empire.
 * Divided Japan: Harry S. Truman would not favor the bomb to end the Japanese war, leading to the invasion of Japan. With help from the Soviets, British, and Chinese, Japan would suffer the same fate as Germany in Europe.


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 * American-German Cold War
 * Bolivar's Dream
 * Earth's Brother
 * Franz's World
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The Moon Commission is an alternative timeline that began in the Space Race, but we kept in secrecy until today. After the fall of communism, the former USSR had no idea about it, but the secret was bound to come out, the Russians had kept a history changing event out of the world media. The Russians landed on the Moon first.

The Kremlin officially releases the "Moon Commission" (Russian: Комиссия Луну Komissiya Lunu), which outlines what really happened, and why the USSR never revealed it.

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 * Yuri Gagarin: [real] First man on the Moon
 * Alexey Leonov: Fellow cosmonaut

Soviet Moonshot

 * 1967


 * October 25: Yuri Gagarin and Alexey Leonov board an N1 rocket. The rocket successfully launches and the two men are on their way to the Moon.


 * October 28: Gagarin boards the Lunar Craft (LK) and begins his decent to the Lunar surface.




 * October 29: Gagarin becomes the first man on the Moon. His superiors request that he say "Worker's of the world, unite!" as his quote on the Moon. However, due to amazement, the first words to come out of his mouth are: "'I can't believe how beautiful it looks up close.'"Gagarin shall stay on the Moon for three hours before returning to the LK to take off and reunite with Leonov in orbit. However, Gagarin reports that the LK engines will not launch. Soviet scientists scramble for the next three more hours to try and figure out what was the problem, but one could not be found in time. Gagarin's air supply begins to run out, as he and Leonov (who is ordered to leave orbit in order for him to return safely to Earth) continues to talk with Gagarin in order to keep the lonely man company. After seven and a half hours, Gagarin looses his oxygen and dies in the LK. Radio transmissions can be heard of Gagarin going peacefully. Leonov griefs on his return trip.


 * November 3: Leonov lands safely in the Arctic sea as the Red army brings him back to Moscow.


 * November 5: The Soviet government begins the Moon Commission in order to figure out why the LK would not launch and what could have been fixed. Leonid Brezhnev orders the records of this mission to be locked up and not to be revealed or released, and those involved to be sworn to secrecy. The USSR cancels all space missions until further notice.

Soviet disaster?

 * 1968


 * March 27: To ease his family and the public interest, the Soviet government announces that Yuri Gagarin has died in a military plane crash in Novosyolovo.


 * 1969


 * July 20: American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first reported men on the Moon. The Soviet Union backs off in defeat.


 * 1975


 * July: Leonev takes his first steps back into space with the Apollo-Soyuz mission. It will be the last time he travels into space.


 * 1991


 * December 25: The Soviet Union collapses. The Moon Commission remains in protected hands.

New Era

 * 2009


 * June 18: NASA launches the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) in the effort to map the Moon in detail. Within months, the LRO has detected all six Apollo landing sites.
 * July 25: The LRO team detects an unidentified object on the Moon's surface. They find no record of an object in that area. They soon confirm that the object is artificial.
 * August 2: The LRO team announces the discovery of the object. The media dubs the object "The Monolith" (after 2001: A Space Odyssey). Mass hysteria grips the planet in the rumor that the object is aliens observing the Human race. Several other rumors are written across the internet. One claims that it is a Chinese craft that was launched to be struck by a missile.
 * August 10: A rumor goes across the internet that the object is the Soviet Union's Moon landing, but was not revealed to the world. The story gains greater interest when it is revealed that the source of this comes from former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov.
 * August 20: After pressure from the public, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announces that the FSB will be releasing all the documents involved in the "Moon Commission."
 * August 25: On live television, Leonov tells the story of how he and Yuri Gagarin not only went to the Moon, Gagarin landed on the Moon two years before Armstrong. He also reveals the reason the USSR kept the mission secret is because the landing craft failed to launch, and Gagarin was stuck on the Moon forever.
 * October 29: All across the world, the people all praise Gagarin and his sacrifice. All 15 republics of the former Soviet Union declare the day Cosmonaut Day. On this day, Roscosmos announces that they will officially name the landing site "Gagaringrad," and declare it the location for the first Russian lunar colony.-->