For All Mankind Season 5 Finally Has a Launch Date — and Mars Is About to Get Messy

After four seasons of rewriting the space race and proving that prestige sci-fi can still be wildly entertaining, For All Mankind is officially gearing up for liftoff once again. Apple TV has revealed the first details for season five of its hit space drama, including a confirmed premiere date and if the early setup is any indication, the show is about to trade Cold War politics for full-blown interplanetary chaos.

Season five of For All Mankind premieres Friday, March 27, kicking off with a single episode before settling into a weekly rollout through May 29. The 10-episode season picks up years after the explosive events of the Goldilocks asteroid heist, a storyline that pushed the series further into speculative sci-fi territory than ever before and it doesn’t look like the show is hitting the brakes.

This time around, Mars is no longer just a frontier, it’s home. Happy Valley has grown into a bustling colony with thousands of residents and serves as a launchpad for humanity’s next leap deeper into the solar system. Naturally, that kind of progress doesn’t come without consequences. Earth’s governments are eager to reassert control, while the people actually living on Mars aren’t exactly thrilled about being told how to run their red-planet lives. Political tension, power struggles, and ideological clashes appear poised to drive the season’s central conflict.

The ensemble cast remains one of the show’s biggest strengths, with Joel Kinnaman, Toby Kebbell, Edi Gathegi, Cynthy Wu, Coral Peña, and Wrenn Schmidt all returning. Season five also brings in an intriguing batch of new series regulars, including Mireille Enos, Costa Ronin, Sean Kaufman, Ruby Cruz, and Ines Asserson.

Created by Ronald D. Moore and guided by showrunners Matt Wolpert and Ben Nedivi, For All Mankind has always thrived on escalation, bigger ideas, bolder timelines and increasingly complicated moral questions. Season five looks ready to continue that tradition, shifting the narrative from national rivalry to something even thornier: who actually gets to own the future when humanity leaves Earth behind?

With all four previous seasons currently streaming on Apple TV, now’s the perfect time to catch up or rewatch before the series rockets back into orbit. If season five delivers on its premise, For All Mankind may once again prove that the most dangerous place in space isn’t the vacuum outside the ship, but the people inside it.