Episode 2

Belitopia S1E2 – Apollo Applications Program

Published on: 21st October, 2019

 

The Apollo space program was much more than a set of missions to the moon. It was also a technology platform that provided the basis for future space programs. A technology platform that the Apollo Applications Program was created to leverage and enhance. In real life, not much came of the Apollo Applications Program. Very little funding was given to the program, and the program suffered. A stunted Skylab space station, and a Apollo-Soyuz joint docking in space were all that came out of the Apollo Applications Program. At least, that’s what happened in real life. But this is not the real world… This is the “Apollo Applications Program”.

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Belitopia
Welcome to the world of “what if”.
This is the world of “what if”. What if we had continued the space race, what would our space footprint look like? What if we had invested heavily in a transportation infrastructure around the globe, how would that change how we get from point A to point B today? What if we decided as a species that world hunger was not acceptable, how would we have solved it with technology? What if we had solved the autonomous car problem 50 years ago, how would that have changed how we worked and played today? What if sustainable energy was standard practice for a generation, how would that change how we interacted in our world today?

From the space program to high speed trains. From bridges to artificial intelligence. From pop culture to politics. From war to religion.

Belitopia is about the world of what if. What if, different decisions were made in our history? Different priorities held by our leaders? Different politics involved?

Let’s see the world as it could have been, perhaps should have been, and might still become.

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