Summary

• For All Mankind season 4 will take place in 2003, with humanity settled on Mars and focusing on mining valuable minerals from asteroids.
• Tensions arise in the new season due to the potential pot of gold that the minerals present, creating international tensions.
• The season will explore the long-term ramifications of the events in the previous season, showcasing the changes and challenges faced by the characters.

For All Mankind season 4 will be pushing the acclaimed Apple TV+ sci-fi series further than it's ever gone before, complete with a time jump of several decades. Set in an alternate history where the Soviet Union landed the first man on the moon, For All Mankind depicts a timeline where lunar colonization and serious attempts to settle on Mars are being made by the 1990s. When the For All Mankind season 4 release date arrives the story will be picking in 2003, eight years after the explosive third season in which NASA, the Soviet space agency Roscosmos, and Helios Aerospace raced to be the first on Mars, only for fate to force them to cooperate.

The ramifications of the events of the third season and what they mean for humanity in the long term will be fully explored when For All Mankind season 4 arrives in November. For All Mankind utilizes a unique timeline where every season takes place about a decade after the previous. With For All Mankind season 4 shifting into the 2000s, the series drastically changes again. The upcoming season of For All Mankind will take place in 2003, with humanity settled on Mars and Helios Aerospace perfecting the art of mining valuable minerals from asteroids. With plenty about the cast and story already revealed there's much to digest about For All Mankind season 4 before its arrival on Apple TV+.

Most Recent For All Mankind Season 4 News

The most recent For All Mankind season 4 news arrived on October 12, 2023. Apple revealed the first full-length trailer for the new season of For All Mankind, and it revealed a great deal about what to expect when the Apple TV+ release date arrives. The trailer provided a quick refresher on the events of the timeline before establishing that viewers will be rejoining the alternate Earth of For All Mankind in 2003.

Happy Valley, the first self-sustaining Mars colony, is making progress. However, as the trailer also reveals, this may not last thanks to asteroid mining becoming a possibility, and tensions arising because of it. With the valuable ultra-rare minerals floating through the void the potential pot of gold at the end of the space race rainbow, international tensions are high, and For All Mankind season 4 could be one of the most dramatic yet.

For All Mankind Is Renewed For Season 4

Apple TV+ officially renewed For All Mankind season 4 on July 22, 2022, a little over a month after the third season began. For All Mankind's upcoming season finished filming in early 2023, with the release date finally announced in September.

For All Mankind Season 4 Release Date

The For All Mankind season 4 release date has been set for November 10, 2023. Like previous seasons, upcoming episodes of For All Mankind will debut exclusively on Apple TV+. Episodes of the next season of For All Mankind will be released weekly on Fridays from November 10 onwards, with the finale arriving on January 12, 2024.

For All Mankind Season 4 Cast

The For All Mankind season 4 cast is a wide ensemble containing both familiar faces and newcomers. Joel Kinnaman is returning as former astronaut Edward "Ed" Baldwin. Sadly, Shantel VanSanten, who played Ed’s wife, Karen, will not return to the For All Mankind season 4 cast, as she was killed in the season 3 finale. However, since her character survived, Wrenn Schmidt will be returning as Margo to the For All Mankind season 4 cast. Other returning cast members returning for the new season of For All Mankind include:

• Jodi Balfour as Ellen Wilson
• Krys Marshall as Danielle Poole
• Cynthy Wu as Kelly Baldwin
• Casey W Johnson as Danny Stevens
• Coral Peña as Aleida Rosales
• Edi Gathegi as Dev Ayesa.

Several new cast members have been confirmed for For All Mankind season 4 too. NASA administrator Eli Hobson will be played by Daniel Stern (Shrill), while new Soviet official Irina Morozova shall be portrayed by Svetlana Efremova (The Americans). Also among the cast members playing new characters on the Mars colony is Tyner Rushing (The Terminal List) as Samantha and Toby Kebbell (Servant) as Miles.

For All Mankind Season 4 Story Details

The next season of For All Mankind will take place 8 years after the season 3 finale. With the alternate Earth's timeline now in 2003, Helios and NASA have successfully founded permanent colonies on Mars. However, in season 4 their mission has expanded far beyond mere settlement and exploration. While colonization and exploration were central to Helios Aerospace, NASA, and Roscomcos's goals in previous seasons of For All Mankind, season 4 will see the foundations laid by these scientific endeavors turning to a more productivity-focused mission.

With the Happy Valley Mars colony still in its infancy, humanity has technologically advanced to a point that makes mining asteroids and other astrological bodies a possibility. This will be a key plot thread in the next season of For All Mankind, as the resources and minerals available in the vastness of the Milky Way could change the fate of both Mars and Earth.

For All Mankind Season 4 Trailer

The first teaser trailer for For All Mankind season 4 arrived from Apple in September 2023. The unique promo was formatted like a recruitment video for Helios, encouraging prospective employees to join them for a new life on Mars. The teaser also came with a brief story synopsis.

Rocketing into the new millennium in the eight years since Season 3, Happy Valley has rapidly expanded its footprint on Mars by turning former foes into partners. Now 2003, the focus of the space program has turned to the capture and mining of extremely valuable, mineral-rich asteroids that could change the future of both Earth and Mars. But simmering tensions between the residents of the now-sprawling international base threaten to undo everything they are working towards.

While the season 4 teaser was brief at just over a minute in length, and didn't give away too much in the way of plot details, it effectively establishes the tone (and timeline) for when For All Mankind returns to Apple TV+ in November 2023. The first full-length trailer for For All Mankind season 4rovided a better look. This trailer, at 2 minutes long, established several important plot points, but more importantly, revealed that life on the Happy Valley Mars colony isn't as pleasant as the name suggests.