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What Is Star City, the Secret Cold War Cosmonaut Training Town in Apple TV's New 'For All Mankind' Spinoff?
The eight-episode drama follows Soviet cosmonauts and KGB agents as paranoia and sabotage threaten the moon race.
- On Friday, May 29, 2026, Apple TV premieres 'Star City,' a 10-episode spinoff of 'For All Mankind' that depicts an alternate history where the Soviet Union becomes the first nation to land a human on the moon.
- Shifting the focus behind the Iron Curtain, the series reimagines the Cold War space race from the Soviet perspective, exploring what might have happened if Moscow had won the race to the moon instead of the United States.
- House of the Dragon actor Rhys Ifans stars as the chief designer heading engineers and cosmonauts, while Motherland actor Anna Maxwell Martin portrays the head of KGB surveillance overseeing their operations.
- The series draws inspiration from the real Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center outside Moscow, a closed city where cosmonauts and their families lived under strict military control during the Soviet space program.
- Co-Creator Matt Wolpert describes the show as a distinct spy thriller capturing ground-level paranoia, saying "the more authentic it feels, the more dangerous it feels" — emphasizing espionage threats over space hazards.
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Soviet Cosmonauts Trained at Star City as They Raced to Beat America to the Moon. Now, a New TV Series Imagines What Happened Behind the Base's Walls
Apple TV's "Star City" takes place in a world where the space race never came to an end. A spinoff of "For All Mankind," the show is told from the Soviet perspective
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New Apple TV sci-fi series Star City will be 'totally different' to For All Mankind season 5 despite having the same creative team — 'we wouldn't have made it if it was a companion piece'
On the same day that For All Mankind season 5 draws to a close, new Apple TV sci-fi series Star City begins. They're made by the same team, but will be 'totally different'.
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