Apple celebrates Apollo 11 anniversary with a new peek at For All Mankind

  • The key art for For All Mankind.
  • The series’ cast includes Joel Kinnaman of Altered Carbon fame.
  • Executive Producer Ronald D. Moore, best known for Battlestar Galactica.
  • Maril Davis, also best known for Battlestar Galactica.
  • Michael Okuda, who led art direction on multiple Star Trek series.
  • Ars Technica’s Lee Hutchinson insisted that this author point out that if observers were really this close to a launch, they would not survive.

As you’ve probably gathered from the Internet today, this is the 50th anniversary of the historic launch of Apollo 11. Tech giant Apple, which has recently gotten into TV production, has released a new, short sneak-peek video for its space-themed For All Mankind series to tie in with the milestone.

This marks the second trailer for the show, but this one has a different focus than the one we saw last month. In it, the showrunners discuss the motivation behind making For All Mankind, the themes it will cover, and more in a series of interviews interspersed with footage. Some of the clips are new, but many are recycled from the previous trailer.

However, those interviewed include (among others) co-creator and executive producer Ronald D. Moore—best known as the creator and showrunner of 2004’s Battlestar Galactica, Outlander on Starz, and a longtime writer and producer for Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine—Maril Davis (who wrote many of Battlestar Galactica‘s best episodes), and Michael Okuda, who famously headed up art direction for the 24th-century-era Star Trek series. Those are obviously sci-fi fan favorites, so it’s good to hear them talking about how space exploration can inspire.

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The new video preview.

For All Mankind takes place in an alternate recent history wherein the Soviet Union beat the United States to putting a man on the Moon. The show depicts the fallout and ensuing greatly amplified space race, which apparently plays out very differently than it did in history. The series will premiere on Apple TV+, the streaming TV subscription service Apple announced at its services-focused event in March.

We still don’t have a premiere date for the series, but the trailer makes it appear that much of For All Mankind has already been shot. So we’re guessing that it’s just a matter of when Apple launches the service itself. The company promised to launch Apple TV+ this September.

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