Oxhorn sends Fallout's history beyond Earth's atmosphere
"Fallout's Space Race" connects a pioneering Persian cat, lunar missions and the aerospace companies behind the wasteland's abandoned ambitions.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Fallout's Space Race
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- 0:00Fallout's divergence from real history is presented as a gradual process rather than one definitive turning point.
- 1:10The USSA's early missions include sending Mr. Pebbles, a Persian cat, into space.
- 9:07REPCONN's aerospace history includes rocket mishaps and radioactive souvenir toys.
- 12:19Valiant 1 and the Deep Sleep Project connect the space program to Commander Sophia Daguerre.
- 23:57Surviving orbital systems and a crashed space station carry the space program's consequences into the post-war world.
- 32:41Zetan encounters and the Bright Brotherhood's rockets extend the story beyond America's pre-war ambitions.
What did Fallout put into space before its astronauts? A Persian house cat named Mr. Pebbles, one of the small, wonderfully odd details in Oxhorn's biggest upload of the week.
"Fallout's Space Race" has drawn about 218,000 views, tracing the series' alternative aerospace history through museum exhibits, terminal records and encounters across the games. Oxhorn resists treating the split from our own history as a single clean break: "Instead, I like to think of the divergence as a gradient."
That approach leaves room for both familiar-looking lunar landers and thoroughly Fallout corporate misconduct. REPCONN's radioactive souvenir toys sit alongside orbital weapons, ArcJet's Mars ambitions and Commander Sophia Daguerre's Deep Sleep Project. The essay follows those ambitions beyond the nuclear catastrophe, into the machinery and people left behind.
Viewers have found a running joke in his distinction between real history and Zetan alien abductions: several playfully question how confidently anyone can rule out kidnapped samurai. Others compare the game's lunar lander with Soviet designs.
Four uploads filled the week. "Who exactly were the Free States?" returned to Fallout faction history, while "Oxhorn Plays Pacific Drive Part 2 - Scotch & Smoke Rings Episode 869" continued his driving-survival playthrough. Across the channel, weekly views topped a million and subscribers held steady; daily viewing is a little below its usual level.
The freshest momentum belongs to "The Day the Bombs Fell." Posted on Monday, it passed 100,000 views within fourteen hours and is now drawing the channel's largest daily audience, turning the week's attention from reaching space to the event that ended those plans.
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What viewers say
'Zetan aliens never kidnapped samurai in our universe' - or so they want you to think!
@STS-qi1qySee it on YouTubeWeird how the US lunar lander in Fallout looks like the Soviet Lunar lander design...
@mattt233See it on YouTubeI love that oxhorn is still producing these videos. Makes the work day much better
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0:54 That we know of. Only a Sith deals in Absolutes.
@MatthewYoinkSee it on YouTubeOxhorn in the morning? Sign me up!
@Kbar303See it on YouTubeThe Virgo- II lander looks pretty much identical to the soviet LK lander.
@luckycobble935See it on YouTubeNo matter what diverged the weather balloon excuse still comes in handy
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The videos drawing views on Oxhorn right now
- Channel
- Oxhorn
- Subscribers
- 1,770,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 1,113,298
- Videos published this week
- 4
- Video published
- October 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 218,453
- Views on its first day
- 89,663
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💡 Test your knowledge
Which Fallout aerospace company is associated with radioactive souvenir toys in Oxhorn's essay?
Oxhorn's REPCONN history includes the company's radioactive souvenir toys alongside its rocket mishaps.




