The world just witnessed Artemis 2‘s inspiring loop around the moon and back and we’re all still enraptured by NASA’s triumphant effort to return humanity to our lone satellite. Now Apple TV is turning back the clock to those early pioneering days when America and the USSR were locked in a lunar sprint with a compelling trailer for its new “For All Mankind” spinoff series, “Star City.”
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“I take this step for my country, for my people, and for the Marxist-Leninist way of life,” states a Soviet cosmonaut as his boots step onto the lunar regolith.
“Star City” will fuel its narrative by focusing on the Soviet’s perspective of placing human’s on the moon in the 1960s using all the perils, paranoia, and pitfalls that went into their historic landing within this fictional universe. Created by “For All Mankind’s” Ronald D. Moore, Ben Nedivi, and Matt Wolpert, this Russian-flavored, 8-episode series blasts off starting on May 29, 2026.
“Our fascination with the Soviet space program has grown with every season of ‘For All Mankind,'” said Wolpert and Nedivi for the series’ 2024 announcement. “The more we learned about this secret city in the forests outside Moscow where the Soviet cosmonauts and engineers worked and lived, the more we wanted to tell this story of the other side of the space race.”
The companion show’s cast of Soviet cosmonauts, engineers, politicians, journalists, spies, scientists, and KGB operatives includes Rhys Ifans, Anna Maxwell Martin, Agnes O’Casey, Alice Englert, Solly McLeod, Adam Nagaitis, Ruby Ashbourne Serkis, Josef Davies, and Priya Kansara.
Apple TV’s “Star City” premieres globally with two episodes Friday, May 29, 2026 followed by new chapters each Friday through July 10.