I would think that given the Cold War continuing in the V1 timeline you would have a smaller version of Freedom, probably with more intelligence capability than the real world version had, probably in place by around 1994-95.
You could see that with the outbreak of the war between China and the Soviet Union that NASA could start to deploy Air Force personnel there - and that they could take the Vandenberg launch site out of mothballs for the Space Shuttle as well - i.e. Space Launch Complex-6 -
Possibly also with the Cold War continuing you may have seen another shuttle built for just the Air Force - there was a plan to build one more shuttle that was scrapped by Bush to save money - that is when I lost my job at Rockwell - if it had been authorized it would have been ready by 1994-95 timing - and thus could have been dedicated for the military from Vandenberg
and with the outbreak of the actual war between the US and the Soviets any remaining civilian personnel on the station would have been replaced by military
And if the ESA built Hermes then the following could have definitely happened - and given the French the head start into space that 2300AD has them having
"So, with an operational Hermes program, you could have an evil France sending small Hermes crews to occupy the abandoned Mir and Freedom space stations "to preserve them for the duration.""
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