<p>Anatoly Zak, Hotel Mars, Jan. 7 Weds:</p><p>The summary below is provided by John Batchelor. You can see this program’s video on John’s Substack page.</p><p><a target="_blank" href="https://open.substack.com/users/21952576-dr-david-m-livingston?utm_source=mentions">Dr. David M. Livingston</a>, 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.</p><p>We welcome Anatoly Zak, who keeps the very helpful <a target="_blank" href="http://russianspaceweb.com/">RussianSpaceWeb.com</a>, 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.</p><p>Now we’re witnessing a new moon race, this time with a new player on the field: the Chinese space program.</p><p>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 <em>still</em> have ambition to get to the moon.</p><p>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. 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