(SeaPRwire) – While For All Mankind speeds into its layered, Mars-focused future in Season 5, the new spinoff series Star City is turning back to the franchise’s early origins. As announced earlier, this series will tell the story of For All Mankind’s alternate timeline from the Soviet point of view. The show’s title itself comes from the central hub of Roscosmos, the USSR’s space program, that sits near Moscow. The series is scheduled to launch on May 29, and Apple TV has just released its first full-length trailer.
The most unexpected takeaway from the trailer is that it confirms Star City is nothing like For All Mankind at its core. Instead, the series shapes up to be a heart-pounding spy thriller, set across the 1960s and early 1970s. If you did not already know the USSR never landed humans on the Moon in 1969 in real life, you could easily mistake this for a straightforward historical drama centered on spaceflight. Put simply, the alternate timeline built by For All Mankind acts as a backdrop for this new show, but judging by the trailer, the series itself is first and foremost a spy thriller.
Star City Trailer Reveals Space Spies
Star City unfolds mostly in parallel with For All Mankind Season 1, which began its story in 1969. But as the title suggests, the plot centers on the tightly secured Star City facility and Soviet officials’ fears that intelligence about the space race could be leaked to the United States.
For All Mankind is no stranger to espionage-focused storylines. Even in its first season, Ed Baldwin (Joel Kinnaman) and other characters worried about Soviet spies operating on the Moon. From Season 2 onward, Margo Madison (Wrenn Schmidt) gets pulled into a complicated spy plot that ultimately forces the former NASA leader to work for Roscosmos in Season 4. Since Season 4, For All Mankind has also prominently featured the character Irina Morozova (Svetlana Efremova), a retired KGB mastermind who later pulled major strings behind the scenes at Roscosmos. Whether Star City will introduce a younger version of Irina is still unconfirmed, but based on the tone of the new trailer, it seems very likely.
The trailer also hints at small connections to the 1973 timeline of For All Mankind. One scene in the trailer notes that the chief designer (Rhys Ifans) holds plans for a Moon base that could be stolen by American operatives. The Jamestown NASA base in Season 1 of FaMK is a major plot point of the original series, so it appears Star City will add a fresh new layer to that origin story.
Even with its links to the original show, the new trailer makes clear that Star City is very much its own unique project: a tense thriller all about secrets, surveillance, and spaceflight.
Star City will premiere on Apple TV on May 29, 2026.
This article is provided by a third-party content provider. SeaPRwire (https://www.seaprwire.com/) makes no warranties or representations regarding its content.
Category: Top News, Daily News
SeaPRwire provides global press release distribution services for companies and organizations, covering more than 6,500 media outlets, 86,000 editors and journalists, and over 3.5 million end-user desktop and mobile apps. SeaPRwire supports multilingual press release distribution in English, Japanese, German, Korean, French, Russian, Indonesian, Malay, Vietnamese, Chinese, and more.