What a former astronaut says TV gets right and wrong about space

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<p>What if the United States had lost the space race &mdash; and the Soviet Union had been the first to land a man on the moon? These are the driving questions behind the Apple TV+ series <a href="https://tv.apple.com/us/show/for-all-mankind/umc.cmc.6wsi780sz5tdbqcf11k76mkp7" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>For All Mankind</strong></em></a>. The show explores the ripple effects of what coming in second could have meant for American culture, the feminist movement, geopolitics, and technology over several decades. And while fiction, it offers warnings about the future of space travel. On this week&rsquo;s episode of <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/apple-news-in-conversation/id1577591053" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><em><strong>Apple News In Conversation</strong></em></a>, host Shumita Basu talks to the show&rsquo;s technical adviser and former NASA astronaut Garrett Reisman about how he helps ground the series in science.</p>