Dev & Helios Are Exactly What For All Mankind's Mars Race Needed
Warning: Spoilers for For All Mankind season 3, episode 2, «Game Changer.»
For All Mankind season 3's race to Mars undergoes a much-needed raising of the stakes when Dev Ayesa's Helios joins the field of competitors. The son of an East African immigrant, Dev is an entrepreneur who founded Helios Aerospace as a private space travel company, in hopes of leading humanity's effort to colonize the solar system. In For All Mankind season 3, Dev resembles real-world billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, both of whom fund space exploration in the private sector. In the trial for mankind's first Mars landing, the introduction of a third party to rival NASA and the Soviets reveals enormous implications for the remainder of For All Mankind season 3.
An alternate timeline beginning with the USSR beating the Americans to the Moon Landing in 1969, For All Mankind sets season 3 in 1992. In the Apple TV+ series' present day, both nations have established military bases, with each occupying one-half of the lunar surface. For All Mankind seasons 1 and 2 were defined by Soviet-American tension, which makes the incorporation of Dev Ayesa's Helios an intriguing and compelling development.
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In For All Mankind season 3, episode 2, Karen meets with Dev following the Polaris hotel disaster. With Karen's career in shambles as she's forced to dismantle her company, Dev offers her a chance at redemption by purchasing the hotel's structure to retrofit as a shuttle for Helios' Mars flight. Later, the two meet at Helios' headquarters and Karen proposes her ex-husband and famed astronaut Ed Baldwin to be Dev's mission commander after NASA dropped him. Dev agrees to bring
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