This wiki contains spoilers for all published episodes. He then watches, frustrated, as the Russians win the space race something he was so close to accomplishing himself. Ed talked to Karen trying to ease the tension between them. At home, Ed is awake in bed and reminisces back to his encounter with Mikhail. Ed gets up and tells her to shoot him, since he knew she would not shoot him. The crew s forced to abort the mission as two astronauts, including Ed, are gravely injured. In an interview to Newsweek, Baldwin said that "NASA doesn't have guts anymore".[1]. Talking to Ed, Karen mentioned problems she had been having with a fence. Gordo reminded him that if he stayed, then he had to wait for Apollo 24 to get there, and then the next crew, which Dani mentioned NASA would never approve, but Ed mentioned that he was commander. Is Buzz Aldrin still alive in 2021? They found a good spot, and were able to land successfully on the Moon's surface. 25 48 48 Comments Best Add a Comment risenphoenixkai 3 mo. The men raced to Outpost Tavern, declaring the last one to get there would buy the drinks. They get ready to go to bed, and Ed lets Mission Control know. It depicts an alternate history where the Soviets complete the first manned Moon landing and the Cold War-era space race never ended. He opened his parachute and headed straight for water. Karen tells him to take it back, and pushes him, while saying that she did not know what had gotten into him. Ed told her that Frank used to fly Phantoms in Vietnam, and had been flying jets ever since the Air Force Academy. Ed tells her that he read the incident report and knew that there was no way she had waited in the lava tube for the storm to pass and asks if she is okay. Administrator Weisner gave them a speech where he announced, on behalf of president Kennedy, a new flight director, Irene Hendricks. Place of birth Danny rushes to bring Ed to the med bay, but the duo gets caught up in a giant sand storm. He's going for that John Boone achievement of being the oldest martian. Thomas asks if he turned Margo over to his side if Ed would join and Ed tells him that if he is able to do so, he would not stand in his way. In our own timeline, there have been more than a few active astronauts in their late 50s and early 60s who flew on Space Shuttle and/or ISS missions. During training, Molly was hitting a rock, which Ed told her she needed to use her full arm with. On the program, Tracy greets the host and tells him that she had returned from being in Rio and Aruba, also stopping at Vegas before returning. Right but John Glenn at that point was basically a glorified passenge on a routine mission orbiting the Earth, and Shatner was an actual passenger not leading Mankinds first manned mission to Mars. Ed tells them that they saw a weakness in them and Bradford tells them that they were their last hope. Karen tells her that she had some medical issues, and Ed had been living away from Karen for a while, since it was a difficult time after Shane died. We all know that. He asks Ed what he needed to do, and Ed told him to act like a man since he was an astronaut and started mocking him. However, as he left, the car broke down. From hair trends to relationship advice, our daily newsletter has everything you need to sound like a person whos on TikTok, even if you arent. Thomas tells him that the White House wanted it to be a unanimous decision, but Ed realizes that all they wanted was for the press not to say that they had decided to do a little saber-rattling over the objections people at JSC had. Although Molly gave the position to him, Margo Madison rescinded Molly's decision and subsequently fired her. He was promoted to Captain of the United States Navy by the president, with a salary increase retroactive to when the mission had started. Ed mentions that the security detail would need weapons, but Thomas says that nobody had mentioned weapons. Its a huge liability having someone that old on a mission that long and isolated, let alone the mission commander. He radioed Houston and began the launch sequenced helped by Gordo, Danielle and Margo. The Apollo 15 crew has dinner in order to get to know each other. Ed calls Gordo and is asked by his friend if he knew about it, but Ed mentions he did not and asks if Gordo is okay and if he needed some company, but Gordo says he would be fine. He told Ed he can get drunk with Gordo, and watch it on TV or go on Apollo 15. Margo takes note that they would need to send more plutonium and says that she would alert Guam to implement nuclear transportation guidelines, only to be told by General Bradford that they would need to ask the Pentagon first. Shane Baldwin is called by his mom in order to go to school. He told her that there was nothing else he could do for Shane. Ed looks back at his office one last time and just as he was about to leave, Thomas asks him what had happened, since he thought they were friends. Actor(s) Margo says that there has to be another way, but they simply can not see another choice. If you are wondering whether Ed dies, leading to the exit of actor Joel Kinnaman from For All Mankind, weve got you covered! Gordo says that the Moon landing could have brought people hope since there was a lot of hate in the world. However, Ed told her that he had to follow orders until relieved. The engineers Larry Wilson and Coop started talking, and Sedge asked what was going on. He also tells him that his name is not Ivan, but Mikhail and reviewed Ed's options. Edward "Ed" Baldwin is one of the main characters in 'For All Mankind.' He is a NASA astronaut who misses the chance to land on the moon with Apollo 10. This tees up moments of quiet dread, like when a moon-exploring astronaut, Ed Baldwin (the glowering Joel Kinnaman, in his finest work since The Killing), first comes face-to-face with a Russian . Ed, Gary Piscotty, and Sally Ride simulated flying the Pathfinder and they ran into a problem. Tracy apologizes because she had gotten her schedule mixed up after celebrating with her new husband Sam. He offered him his job back on Apollo 15, which made Ed excited and he accepted. However, Ed mentions that although he and von Braun didn't always see eye to eye, he still respected him since he built the Saturn V. They tell him that he has the president's support, and have him think about it. He congratulates her and they are brought spaghetti by their adopted daughter, who mentions that she had not been able to look at the college catalogue Karen had given her. They discussed changes made to Outpost like a plant Karen wanted to put there and the removal of the pool table. However, Ed and Bradford agree that if they sent marines to the Moon, it would be possible. Ed told her that only ten more days and he would be down there, and they said goodbye. Deke mentioned presidents come and go, but NASA stays, and told him what he had said in DC took a lot of guts. When he got there, he went to Shane's room with Karen. Season(s) Ed enters the room, and wishes everybody a good morning. Well I think episode one was the story of how they come to realise they need younger blood in their roster. Ed radios 24 and tells them that Houston was working on a fix, but Deke says that there would be no time for him to dock. Joel Kinnaman They look at the cosmonauts and turn back from the Moon. Ed says that he is the man of the house and did not need to explain himself to anyone, and when Kelly told him that she did not need his permission to apply, Ed said that he knew the superintendent of the academy, so with one phone call, she would be rejected. None of them drop out but Sally asks if there were nuclear weapons aboard Sea Dragon 17, to which Ed sincerely responds that he does not know. This Soviet feat leads the United States of America to reshape its space program, foreign policies, and social dynamics on its domestic front. Gordo told Ed that his father was a very tough man, and had never backed away from anything until he got cancer, which scared him. Ed told NASA this, and was told that Gordo and Danielle had been approved to go back home, and his new return date was another two weeks from then. When Ed saw Molly wearing glasses, he made fun of her. Gene corrected him, telling Thomas Margo was a flight dynamics officer and was making a good point. Ed and his crew are provided a ground-breaking opportunity when Roscosmos proposes a joint mission to extract water they have discovered under the planets surface. Molly asks him if he was okay with someone taking "his baby," the Pathfinder to space, and he says that he had had all the time he needed up in space. His later wife Karen once saw him shoot bottle rockets in an empty parking lot in Gary. He told him that they went to see him a year ago, but that Elvis was a joke now, but Mikhail told him that Elvis would always be king, but Ed mentioned that Sinatra would always be the one. SPOILERS AHEAD! Mission Control told them that it was up to them, and they eventually decided to go for it. Tracy got very mad at Ed when she found out he had assigned Gordo to Jamestown at the same time she would be there. Ed moves down the crater, where he drills into the crater only to soon find out the Soviets had planted a camera in his working space. Joking, Ed asked if they made him go through customs when he returned from the Moon. Edward remembered it differently, but he told him that there was enough ice for everyone. Shorty then told her that Americans want to see a free woman on the Moon, not some Soviet puppet, and told her she should smile more, but after seeing her smile, he regretted it, and told her not to. So, the dude lived through the Depression as a child, flew in combat, got shot down, spent a week behind enemy lines, then trained as an astronaut, spent what, almost a year completely alone on the moon, moved to a desk, very selfishly put himself and his best friend back in space, where he flew in combat again and has aged another ~10 years. On the LEM, Ed felt relieved to be able to breathe, and Molly told Mission Control that they did not know how lucky they were. And then you get him in the haircut and sunglasses and the suit, it's like he just stepped out of The Right Stuff," series co-creator Ronald D. Moore told Entertainment Weekly, referring to Philip Kaufman's 1983 film following the nation's first astronauts at the genesis of the space program. He asked Ed if it was possible that Mikhail had planted a bug at Jamestown, but Ed said that it was not. They neared Shackleton, which was dark, but it was time for them to find a landing spot. He mentioned another relief mission that would be there in a few days, but Ellen tells him that she would send him back home. She mentioned she was under stress whenever the phone rang. Gordo calls Ed, but he does not answer and turns off communications while drinking a bottle of Chivas and starts banging his head. He greets Danielle, who tells him to hook up to the biosensors and to fix the aux tank coupling. Ellen removed her chord and jumped, successfully attaching it to the tank and barely able to hold on to it. Her transmission was cutting out, but managed to tell Ed she would be slowing down, as she was now heading into the dark. In reality, the USA successfully carried out a manned moon-landing as Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon on July 20, 1969. Just when it seems like Ed will perish, he and Danny hide inside a rover and save themselves from the storm. Baldwin was the commander of Apollo 10, which traveled 8 miles from the Moon and served as a test flight for Apollo 11. As For All Mankind season 3 fixates on humanity's race to land on Mars, Karen finds herself at the forefront of the series' narrative. [note 1] Deke tells him von Braun wants him reassigned to the Apollo Applications Program effective immediately, telling him he was to blame for being taken off Apollo 15, even mentioning that von Braun wanted him off the project completely. Karen says that it is since Kelly had finally decided where she wanted to go. If you pause and look at Ed Baldwin's astronaut assignment board, you also see a lot of familiar NASA faces mixed in with newer astronaut candidates: for example, Apollo-era astronauts such as Ron Evans, Paul Weitz, Alan Shepard, and Jim Irwin are on the board, among a few others. Press J to jump to the feed. Karen leaves Tracy flowers. Kelly says that if he does that, she would go to the recruiting office and go to Annapolis as an enlisted sailor. Ed clarified, telling her she was a pilot, and all pilots had tendencies, like Gordo, to look at an instrument panel, then checks his surroundings like he is in a plane. Molly mentioned they were celebrating for nothing, since she had not done anything yet, but Ed countered by saying that she had strapped herself on top of a quarter million tons of high explosive for government pay, which was something. Edward Baldwin is on a phone call with Patty's father, who is angry at what happened, but Ed only mentions he was Patty's instructor on the day of the accident before Doyle hung up on him. She told him that Shane had a good game, being nervous at first, but doing well in the end. More likely, it should be "June 30", which would correspond with the real life release day of Newsweek during that era, Mondays, and would also fit best into the episode's time flow.In the episode's timeline, Deke's presentation of the article to Ed seemingly happened on July 1, after June 30 (dead of Aleida's mother, seen at 24:32) but before July 2 (14 days to Apollo 11 launch, seen at 34:52 and said at 37:26). Ed starts crying and Karen says that she had the same feeling, but reminds him that Shane had died while biking down the street, mentioning that there was nowhere on Earth that was safe. 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