This is CBS, I and the world. I'm John Bachelor.

Russ Cosmos, the original and successful dream of the space exploration now we take routine

was dreamed up sometime between the 1920s and the 1950s by a number of visionaries in Russia who became Russ Cosmos.

We come now to 1967.

The original generation was still an authority but passing it on, passing the baton on, to men and women who were dreaming of a moon landing and a moon colonization.

David Livingston joins me as my colleague and co-host.

This is Hotel Mars episode N, and we're very pleased to welcome Anatole Zach who keeps the Russian Space Web

and is doing important lifting of Russian material from the 1960s.

He translates into English for us and with many many design

drawings and visions of what Russia was about in the Moon Race. This is the first of several components that Russ Cosmos is

dreaming, the moon first. Anatoly, this is an excellent piece. I mentioned

Russian Space Web is a subscription site.

I heartily recommend this is a fascination about the Cold War, but also this is a vision

of expiration in the future that is intact here in the 21st century.

It's passed to other hands to younger men and women, but it's still there, the dream of the moon.

And it totally congratulations.

We begin with how the Russians,

Ros Cosmos thought about the moon.

There was a lander, five or six days. there was a station, six months, and there was a base permanent.

That was their concept.

Have I said that correctly?

And how did they imagine those three things

...