For All Mankind - Pathfinder Shuttle Maiden Flight

NASA’s maiden NERVA rocket “flight“ is moved up in light of the Soviet shuttle Buran essentially acting as a blockade against the U.S’s Sea Dragon resupply mission, who they think is harboring nuclear weapons to the moon. Pathfinder will act as weaponized escort for the Sea Dragon resupply mission to “deter“ the Russians from attacking—basically the Cuban Missile Crisis but in space.