For All Mankind Renewed for Sixth and Final Season by Apple TV

Days before the Season 5 premiere, Apple TV has confirmed that long-running space series For All Mankind has been renewed for Season 6, which will also be the show’s last. “Getting to explore the For All Mankind universe over six seasons has been an amazing privilege, and we’re thrilled to have the opportunity to finish the story the way we’ve always hoped,” said creators Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi in a statement.

It’s always a little sad when a beloved show announces the end, but in the case of For All Mankind, the timing makes sense. Season 5 will begin in the year 2012, and if Season 6 follows the pattern of past seasons, the final season will be set in the 2020s — essentially catching up with today. Though the alternate universe in which the show takes place looks a lot different from our own timeline: In Season 5, Earth has already colonized both the Moon and Mars, and who knows how much further humanity will progress by the series finale?

Apple’s renewal announcement does not reveal any cast members that might be returning for Season 6, though longtime fans will of course be curious about the fate of Joel Kinnaman’s Ed Baldwin, who was a strapping young astronaut in Season 1’s 1969 and has now aged into his 80s for Season 5. (A lot of old age makeup is now involved.) Kinnaman and Wrenn Schmidt are the only two actors who have remained with the show since Season 1 — Schmidt, too, is now heavily aged-up to play former NASA engineer/Soviet defector Margo Madison.

Season 5 of For All Mankind premieres Friday, March 27th on Apple TV. See where it ranked on Consequence’s list of the best space TV shows, ever, and check out the Season 5 trailer below.