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* UncertainDoom: She's last seen running away before Charles sets off the bomb, leaving it unclear if she was caught in the explosion or if she was apprehended afterwards. [[spoiler: The season 3 to season 4 newsreel reveals that she, along with Charles Bernitz, was convicted in the bombing and was facing the death penalty.]]

** Happens again, even ''worse'', in season 3 when [[spoiler:Molly assigns him to command the first mission to Mars, only for Margo to overrule her and assign Danielle instead. This time, he's sufficiently pissed that he leaves NASA and joins up with Helios Aerospace's mission instead]].
** And then things get ''even worse'' when [[spoiler:he ends up being in position for becoming the first human on Mars with only seconds to spare, only to have a flashback to Apollo 10 and decide to abort back to orbit ''literally at the last moment'', willingly forfeiting first place to the ''Sojourner'' crew rather than risk his own through a potentially suicidal landing under incredibly dangerous conditions]].

* BackForTheDead: After being absent for half of Season Three, Molly returns in the season's final episode -- [[spoiler:and dies in the aftermath of the JSC bombing]].

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:She dies in the aftermath of the bombing of the Johnson Space Center while trying to evacuate other survivors.]]

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: She and Kuznetsov crack up in "Stranger in a Strange Land" upon realizing that [[spoiler:North Korea beat them to Mars, meaning that ''all'' of the {{realpolitik}} in the third season, and the tragic deaths that ensued, was completely pointless]].

* EverythingButTheGirl: She is head of NASA, first female President, a beloved public figure, got to command Jamestown (and could go back any time she chose to do so), but her OneTrueLove dumped her. [[spoiler: Twice]].
* [[spoiler: HappilyMarried: She gets her happy ending and marries Pam between seasons 3 and 4.]]

* StalkerWithACrush: [[spoiler:In Season 3, he still has feelings for Karen, which manifest when he starts parking outside her house and watching the video messages she sends to Ed.]]

* DroppedABridgeOnHim: [[spoiler:The "1989" tie-in video explains that Lopez was killed when ''Pathfinder'' decompressed.]]

* RankUp: He is promoted to lieutenant colonel [[spoiler:before he is killed in 1989 aboard ''Pathfinder''.]]

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[spoiler:Much like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=], Charles is a former servicemember who had served his country with distinction.]]

* ConspiracyTheorist: [[spoiler:Starts promoting conspiracy theories about the Jamestown incident in the 1990s.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:Goes from serving his country as a Marine to a terrorist plotting an attack against NASA.]]

* SuicideAttack: [[spoiler:After realizing Jimmy has escaped and Karen trying to alert security, Charles sets off the bomb while standing next to it.]]

* JerkassHasAPoint: [[spoiler:Margo is completely correct in criticizing Aleida for accusing a co-worker without evidence and for wasting her time trying to find out who the traitor is, as that is not her job. However, the viewer knows that Margo has no altruistic reason for saying this, as she is actually the traitor.]]

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Margo has a big one when Aleida says she found out who the traitor is. She is relieved however when she discovers that Aleida is following the wrong lead.]]
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: [[spoiler:Aleida finally becomes suspicious of Margo when she suggests that Aleida take some time off to try to forget about the traitor's investigation. Aleida even asks in disbelief since when Margo offers anyone a break.]]

* TookALevelInJerkass: [[spoiler: In Season 3, Margo emotionally manipulates Aleida in her attempts to get her to drop the investigation into who is leaking NASA information. To accomplish this, Margo uses Aleida's own past against her (remembering when her father was falsely accused of being a spy) and even threatening to suspend her.]]

* EurekaMoment: [[spoiler:It's implied that Aleida finally realizes that Margot leaked the engine plans when she leaves her office, glancing back at a portrait of her with a shattered expression.]]

* RankUp: [[spoiler:In 1994, she is flight director at JSC.]]

* BrainDrain: [[spoiler:In Season 3, he leaves NASA to work at Helios.]]

* RankUp: [[spoiler:In Season 3, he's now a flight director for Helios.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:She dies in the the bombing of the Johnson Space Center.]]

* CruelToBeKind: Possibly why she [[spoiler: dumps Ellen the second time after hearing Lee Atwater describe her as possible Republican politician material. She knows their relationship would get in the way of Ellen's dream of reaching Mars and wants her to pursue that instead.]]

* BoomerangBigot: [[spoiler:In Season 3, he pushes Ellen to get closer with the evangelical wing of the Republican Party, who are notoriously anti-gay. When Will Tyler comes out on Mars, he does not show any intention of allowing him to stay in the military.]]

* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:In Season 3, when he's now living with Aleida's family, it's becoming clear that he is suffering from the early signs of Alzheimer's. He makes a dinner with cheese even though Victor can't eat it, he becomes obsessed with finding his watch while on the phone with Aleida, and he is increasingly forgetful and paranoid. After the TimeSkip, it's confirmed that he's now in assisted living, and when he tries to comfort Aleida, he calls her by his late wife's name.]]

* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: [[spoiler:He is horrified in the aftermath of the JSC bombing.]]

* UncertainDoom: [[spoiler:She's last seen running away before Charles sets off the bomb, leaving it unclear if she was caught in the explosion or if she was apprehended afterwards.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: His administration saw the widespread shift from fossil fuels to fusion energy production. However, this did not include widespread retraining of those in the antiquated sectors, which leads to growing resentment among Americans [[spoiler:and ultimately results in a domestic terrorist attack on the Johnson Space Center]].

* ActuallyPrettyFunny: He and Danielle crack up in "Stranger in a Strange Land" upon realizing that [[spoiler:North Korea beat them to Mars, meaning that ''all'' of the {{realpolitik}} in the third season, and the tragic deaths that ensued, was completely pointless]].

* BackForTheDead: [[spoiler: He returns in the first episode of Season 3, revealing he and Karen Baldwin have created a commercial empire off the backs of NASA, including a state-of-the-art space hotel, only for him to die in an elevator crash.]]
* BookEnds: He is introduced by Tracy as taking part in a wild wedding and honeymoon at the start of Season 2. He begins Season 3 by hosting a similar wild wedding at his new space hotel [[spoiler:on the same day he dies]].

* BitchInSheepsClothing: When introduced, he presents Helios as a non-hierarchical organization and engages in his employee's opinions. [[spoiler:However, when the Russian ''Mars-94'' vehicle develops trouble, he overrides Ed's wish to go to their rescue, forcing ''Sojourner'' to do it instead and allowing Helios to get to Mars first.]]

* GloryHound: It's clear that at least part of his motivation for sending a mission to Mars is to be known as the man who beat NASA and Roscosmos at their own game. [[spoiler:He doesn't take it well when they end up getting there first anyway]].
* HonestCorporateExecutive: He initially starts out this way. Helios is organzied in a non-hierarchical structure, with him having no office or official title. He puts major company decisions up to a vote with all of his employees. He points out that many achievements in aviation were made by private individuals, and sees Helios as no different than the Wright Brothers or Charles Lindbergh. [[spoiler:However, he later overrides Ed's desire to help the Soviet crew, showing that he only cares about getting to Mars first. He is also able to intimidate the Helios employees into voting his way out of either loyalty to him or fear that they'll be dismissed.]]
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Ego aside, Dev is not a villain. In "The Sands of Ares", when it becomes clear just how badly things have gone on Mars, Dev snaps out of his HeroicBSOD and promises Karen that he'll do everything in his power to find Ed, and [[spoiler:is indeed the one who figures out how to save him and Danny]].
* LaserGuidedKarma: [[spoiler:He overrode Ed's desire to help the ''Mars-94'' crew and locked him out of his own ship so that Helios could be the first to land on Mars. He's ultimately beaten by what ends up being a joint NASA-Soviet landing.]]

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Initially played straight, when going over the retrofit of Polaris Station into the ''Phoenix'', Dev tells Ed that he plans on automating most of the systems so Ed would be the only true astronaut out of a crew of visionaries. Ed rejects those ideas, pointing out how tough space is, and how he will need professionals trained to handle multiple different roles instead of artists, as well as needing control over the ''Phoenix'' if something goes down. Dev realizes Ed has valid points, and acquiesces to his experience. [[spoiler:But later subverted during the trip to Mars, when the kind of crisis Ed warned about happens. Dev not only withdraws that on-the-spot command decision authority Ed was promised, he sends through a "software update" that engages the ''Phoenix'' into an automated mode, locking Ed and his crew out of any course deviations.]]

* TranquilFury: He rarely raises his voice when angered, preferring {{Death Glare}}s and, sometimes, wordlessly crushing the nearest object. [[spoiler:While the rest of the world is celebrating ''Sojourner'' successfully landing on Mars, Dev silently sits on a desk, downright ''pissed''.]]

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[[spoiler: Colonel Lee Jung-Gil]]

[[spoiler:The [[SoleSurvivor sole survivor]] of the secret North Korean mission to Mars, who manages to endure the crash-landing of his spacecraft, only to end up stranded and alone on the Red Planet.]]

* SoleSurvivor: [[spoiler:The only other member of the North Korean crew was killed in the crash landing.]]
* WalkingSpoiler: [[spoiler:His entire existence reveals the twist of Season 3 that the North Koreans managed to secretly send their own crew to Mars far ahead of what anyone else thought they could, and didn't even bother telling anyone because they lost contact with the craft when it was supposed to land, and covered up the "failure" on their end.]]

* {{Pyromania}}: As a child, she has a disturbing fascination with burning things. It ends up getting her kicked out of her university when she sets fire to a JerkAss teacher's office.

* AcePilot: Armstrong's piloting skills are attested when he manages to successfully take off in ''Eagle''.

* DarkChick: She's young and attractive, but involved with a group that wants to make NASA "pay for their crimes."

* SurprisinglyGoodEnglish: He has an accent, yes, but he is able to communicate with Ed just fine.

* NotGoodWithPeople: Von Braun flat out says that that is what has hampered her career.

* NotGoodWithPeople: If she weren't constantly getting on everybody's nerves and picking fights at work, she would be in a much more secure financial and legal situation. Thankfully she undergoes CharacterDevelopment.

* InsufferableGenius: She has been fired from every engineering job she ever had due to her combative personality, which led her to set fires in people's offices, among other things. The same people who fired her describe her as the most talented engineer they've ever met.

[[folder:Gordo Stevens]]

->'''Played by:''' Creator/MasonThames (season one), Creator/CaseyWJohnson (season two-onwards)

->'''Played by:''' C.S. Lee

* HistoricalDowngrade: Sally Ride was the first American woman in space, something that in the show had already been accomplished a decade earlier by Molly Cobb. Then it's then [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in the season 2 finale into:
* HistoricalHeroUpgrade: When her actions ultimately persuade Ed not to shoot down ''Buran'' and instead destroy Sea Dragon 14, preventing World War III from breaking out on Earth in the process meaning that even though she didn't become the first American woman in space as she did in real life, her actions ultimately saved millions of lives, which is something real-life Sally Ride has never done.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: Historically, Sally Ride retired from NASA in 1987. It is unclear whether she did so as well in this timeline.

* InvisiblePresident: He has yet to appear early in Season 3, as his term is winding down and there is focus on the 1992 election between Ellen and Bill Clinton.

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* ScatterbrainedSenior: [[spoiler:In Season 3, when he's now living with Aleida's family, it's becoming clear that he is suffering from the early signs of Alzheimer's. He makes a dinner with cheese even though Victor can't eat it, he becomes obsessed with finding his watch while on the phone with Aleida, and he is increasingly forgetful and paranoid.]]

* NeverASelfMadeWoman: Initially her being part of the first batch of female [=ASCANs=] is dismissed as just angling for the potential press coverage of a "Space Couple." Gordo is the first to believe otherwise and ultimately she proves the critics wrong.

The first African American woman to work for NASA as an astronaut.

* BlackAndNerdy: Of all the astronauts shown on screen she displays by far the vastest knowledge of classic "nerdy" interests. She also previously worked as a "computer" at NASA, which is a job that involves loads and loads of math.

* FireForgedFriendship: She, Ed and Gordo did not see eye to eye pre-Apollo 22. Turns out getting stuck on the moon and nearly going mad from isolation either turns you into the closest-knit group of friends imaginable or to people who wish to kill each other for daring to breathe.

* BrokenPedestal: He is initially a beloved and respected figure in America's space program. But when the Soviets land first on the Moon, the full extent of his Nazi past is exposed and he is forced to resign in disgrace.

* NobleDemon: The show pulls no punches about von Braun's culpability in the Nazis' atrocities, but he's sincerely devoted to advancing the American space program and keeping it as safe as possible. If he'd still been around, there's no way the destruction of Apollo 23 would have happened.
* NeverMyFault: He runs through every excuse he can think of when confronted by his Nazi past, but Congressman Sandman has counterarguments prepared for each one. The closest he gets to admitting the truth is when he tells Margo that "progress is never free."
* ParentalSubstitute: To Margo, whose father was distant at best. He tutored her in math, and either he or his wife taught her how to play piano.

* AllohistoricalAllusion: [[spoiler:Much like Oklahoma City bomber Timothy [=McVeigh=], Charles is a former service member who had served his country with distinction.]]

The first African American woman to work for NASA as an astronaut