Buckle up, space cadets, because the wait is finally over. Apple TV+ just dropped the official trailer for For All Mankind Season 5, and if you thought the asteroid heist in Season 4 was peak tension, you haven’t seen anything yet. We are officially heading into the 2010s, and the alternate history of the space race is looking more like a powder keg than a scientific utopia.
The trailer, which debuted yesterday on February 24, 2026, confirms that we’re jumping ahead to the year 2012. In this timeline, the Happy Valley colony on Mars has exploded from a dusty frontier outpost into a massive, thriving civilization housing thousands of residents. But with growth comes a serious case of “Earth vs. Mars” teenage angst. The vibe is officially interplanetary revolution, with Martian colonists chanting “Mars is ours!” while Earth’s governments—frustrated by the cost of subsidizing the Red Planet—try to tighten the leash and demand “law and order.”
One of the coolest reveals is seeing a very distinguished, very elderly Ed Baldwin, played by the legendary Joel Kinnaman. Our favorite “Space Grandpa” is now well into his 80s or 90s, but he’s clearly not done making trouble. The torch is being passed to a new generation, specifically Alex Poletov Baldwin, Ed’s grandson, who seems to be inheriting the family’s knack for high-stakes piloting and rule-breaking. We also get a glimpse of Sean Kaufman taking on the role of Alex, alongside other fresh faces like Mireille Enos, who plays a Mars Peacekeeper caught in the middle of the political crossfire.
The scale of the show is clearly expanding beyond just mining rocks. The trailer hints at a pulse-pounding new mission to find intelligent life in the deep reaches of the solar system, which Dev Ayesa describes as potentially the greatest discovery in human history. Plus, can we talk about the Martian motocross? Seeing astronauts tearing up the red dunes on dirtbikes is exactly the kind of “cool future tech” we’ve been waiting for.
If the political intrigue and the “Earth First” movement in the trailer are anything to go by, this season is going to be less about the science of survival and more about the soul of a new world. Mark your calendars for March 27, 2026, when the first of ten episodes hits the streamer. It’s been a long two-year gap since we last saw Margo Madison in handcuffs, but the scale of this Martian revolution looks like it was well worth the wait.
