The Space Show Presents Hotel Mars With Anatoly Zak For Important Russian Space History

Anatoly Zak, Hotel Mars, Jan. 7 Weds:

The summary below is provided by John Batchelor. You can see this program’s video on John’s Substack page.

Dr. David M. Livingston, doctor of space himself, is here. He is my colleague and co-host and friend and copilot, as we’re getting not only into time and space, but we’re going back to 1972 to go forward to the moon.

We welcome Anatoly Zak, who keeps the very helpful RussianSpaceWeb.com, a subscription site. I heartily recommend it for those of you who lived through the first moon rays during the Cold War of the 20th century.

Now we’re witnessing a new moon race, this time with a new player on the field: the Chinese space program.

However, in 1972, America had won the moon race. In 1969, there were subsequent moon ventures by the Russians and the Americans. We’re talking detente, and that would lead to a joint space mission in Earth orbit. But as of that point, the Russians and Roscosmos had ambition to get to the moon—and they still have ambition to get to the moon.

And it’s totally wonderful to travel to 1972, when I was a much younger fellow and didn’t see or didn’t know about all these developments in Russia. What was L3m?

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