This is CBS I On The World with John Bachelor. Here's John Bachelor.

This is CBS I On The World. I'm John Bachelor. This is also Hotel Mars episode N with David

Livingston, my colleague and co-host because we are exploring the ambitions that we're

told the Chinese Space Program join with the Russian Space Program now entertain for moon

colonies. Moon colonies are read most recently from space.com. Ross Cosmos is looking at ways

to send its Cosmonauts to the Chinese Space Station launching from site to neither Russia

or French Guiana. During a press conference at the recently concluded Global Space Exploration

Conference in St. Petersburg, Demetra Rgozen, director general of Ross Cosmos revealed that

Russia is in discussions with China about crude flights to crude flights to the Chinese Space

Station. We welcome Haim Beneroyah, our guide on these matters of traveling into space to

stay colonizing, living on the moon, living on Mars. Haim is a Rutgers University mechanical

and aerospace engineering professional professor. However, he most importantly is the author of

several books speaking to the ambitions of the Chinese Space Program and now that we see

the Russians are working closely with them, though Ross Cosmos Space Station as well.

Several minutes on the moon, I'm not Haim's original book to my introduction, Turning

Dust to Gold, Building a Future on the Moon in Mars. The follow-up was Building Habitats

on the Moon. The Conjoining Book was Lunar Settlements. All of this tells me that Haim is

the person to go to to say, is this credible in the next few years Haim? Good evening to

you, Ross Cosmos meeting the People's Republic of China. Are they ready to build a colony

on the moon? Good evening, Professor. Good evening, John. Thank you for having me. I would

say the Russians and the Chinese definitely have the technical ability to do what they're

proposing to do. The Chinese just put up the first module of their space station and the

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