Talk about highs and lows. Friday’s (May 7) newest episode of For All Mankind took the show where it had never been before, with both moments of both tragedy and triumph. Warning: The following post contains spoilers for For All Mankind Season 5 Episode 7, “The Sirens of Titan.”
The episode began on a somber note. Six months had passed since the Sojourner 1 mission to Titan began, and the crew, including Kelly Baldwin (Cynthy Wu), was inching ever nearer to Saturn as they got a distress call from Kosmos 1. They were going too fast to enter Titan’s orbit and would instead be pulled into Saturn’s atmosphere.
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