The series "For All Mankind" removed a dead-end in a part of my life by reliving the early days of maned space exploration and continuing on, although fictionally, to what could have become a logical sequences of events and milestones with the man's journey into space. I don't know if the anyone involved with the show's production will read my comments, but I can't thank you enough for making this series. As a child growing up in the sixties, there was nothing more exciting to me and my friends than the space race. We lived in Florida. My father was involved with the manufacturing of guidance systems for the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo spacecraft. Every day there was some news about the American space effort in the paper. (I saved a lot of the articles in a scrap book.) Our school day was often interrupted as a black and white television was wheeled into our classroom so we could watch manned space mission launches. I was in high school when we landed on the moon. Travel to Mars and beyond was around the corner. We had a connection. We thought about the possibilities for the future. Then it all ended. For a long time there was nothing other then an electronic box being sent to the other reaches of our planetary system, or an occasional close-up photo of a planet. The space shuttle program was interesting but not the same as it wasn't taking man anywhere new. The International Space Station has little interest as a person can only watch a nameless astronaut entertain viewers with floating M&M candy for so long. Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos seem to be on to something with their space efforts, as they pick up where NASA left us in the early '70s. I get it that some people say that there is too much social justice in the story, but if it wasn't part of the plot we wouldn't have witnessed Molly Cobb going into the crater or Tracy Stevens taking command of her space craft to save a fellow astronaut, some of the many standout moments in the series. I can't wait for what season two will bring.

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