: At Helios, the board tires of Dev Ayesa’s visionary but costly leadership and maneuvers to replace him with Karen Baldwin as CEO.

In the alternate history of (Season 3, Episode 9: "Coming Home"), the year is 1995, and the race to Mars has become a desperate fight for survival. Five months after a catastrophic landslide at the Helios base, the joint crews of NASA, Roscosmos, and Helios are stranded on the Martian surface with a damaged ascent vehicle. The Crisis on Mars

The surviving astronauts have integrated into a single team, working tirelessly to repair the . Their mission is critical: they must dock with the orbiting Phoenix before their narrow launch window closes forever. However, they discover a fried integration card in the rendezvous radar—a part they don't have a spare for.

: Facing a subpoena that would expose her husband’s affair, President Ellen Wilson stuns the nation by coming out as gay during a live press conference, effectively ending her political career but reclaiming her identity.

Back home, political and personal secrets reach a breaking point:

Adding to the tension, is heavily pregnant and suffering from pre-eclampsia. Her condition is deteriorating, and her existing spacesuit no longer fits, forcing her father, Ed Baldwin, to seek help from the Soviets for a more flexible suit. The Search for a Solution