Technocratic America

A wanky TL based on the premise of Technocratic thought becoming mainstream in America.

=Timeline==

March 13, 1881 Russian czar Alexander II is assassinated.

1912 Titanic did not sink and U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt is assassinated.

1926 Rocket Pioneer Goddard tests the first liquid fueled rocket.

1930 French rocket scientist Robert Esnault-Pelterie immigrates to America.

1932 Technocracy movement is founded by Howard Scott and Walter Rautenstrauch.

1933 FDR is assassinated. Howard Scott did not mess up his speech while Hitlers gain power over Germany.

1936 For the first time in American history, the technocratic movement prevailed when Howard Scott became the U.S. President.

1937 Robert Goddard is given necessary funds to improve his rocket design, in the face of a looming war in Europe.

1939 Breakout of World War II.

1940 Walter Rautenstrauch became the U.S. President.

1941 Nazi Germany invades Russia, capturing Moscow for a brief time.

1945 End of World War II. Numerous German rocket scientist are moved to the United States.

1946-1949: U.S. President Rautenstrauch decided to let the rocket designer Wernher Von Braun to chase his own dream in this TL. The NCA (National Council of Astronautics), which oversees spaceflight activity like OTL's NASA, is created around this time.

1949: The United States launched the first artificial satellite.

1951: U.S. sent the first human into suborbital trajectory.

1952: U.S. sent the first human into orbit.

1956: the Mk I Ferry Rocket is operational.

1960: U.S. constructed an artificial gravity space station called Wheel Space Station I on orbit around Earth.

1961: U.S. sent the orbiting observation platform The Columbiad to look for potential landing sites.

1963: NCA conducted the first manned lunar landing in the month of July with the Eagle One mission.

1968: NCA conducted the first manned Martian landing in the Team One mission, by landing a vast winged glider on the planet's north pole.

1973: Space based solar power supplanted fossil fuels.

2007: There are 6.5 billion humans estimated. Among these, 420 thousand humans live off-world.

2018: Numerous high speed rail system connect places across America.