This is a CBS, I in the world. I'm John Bachelor. Hotel Mars, episode end continuing with David Livingston, Dr. Space of the Space Show,

and we're thrilled to have Anatoly Zach

the Russian Space Program historian who keeps the Russian Space Web,

the man program and the robot program. We're concentrating on the Man Program now.

We've just told the successful story of the prep for the Apollo Soyuz mission of

1975. It was finally solved. All the upgrades were solved in August of

74. However, I learned from Anatoly there was something else that happened in

August of 74. 50 years ago right now a secret mission to a secret

orbiting space station by Cosmonauts. It came under the rubric of Soyuz 15 mission.

However, it launched in late August, 26 August,

and from Turretam, which is the actual name

Anatole tells me of what we call Baikinor, their Kazakhstan

base launch base. On board were two very sensitive and heroic cosmonauts and

their mission was to rendezvous with the secret station.

And it's only this is wonderful.

I had no idea.

And what is especially cool is the test for the Apollo Soyuz flight is about

Dayton. But when we come to this mission, it's about the Cold War. It's about

commanding a military space station in orbit. Please introduce us to what you

correctly call al-ma's OPS2. What was Al-Maz?

Good evening to you.

Uh, flow, John.

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