Hotel Mars: The moon race 1968-69. Anatoly Zak. RussiaSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
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🗓️ 8 March 2024
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Hotel Mars: The Moon Race 1968-69. Anatoly Zak. RussiaSpaceWeb.com. David Livingston, SpaceShow.com
https://russianspaceweb.com/protected/l3m-block-sr.html
1905 Jules Verne
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| 0:39.7 | an Anatole Zach who keeps the Russian Space Web, a subscription site I recommend to follow the drama |
| 0:46.4 | of the ISS and all the other programs that have revolved around Russ Cosmos these many decades and we're going back to the late 1960s |
| 0:57.1 | Anatole introduces us now to revelations in new documents that have been made public about the Russian plan to land on the |
| 1:05.8 | Moon before the Americans. |
| 1:08.7 | The Moon Race was everything for NASA and Ros Cosmos in the 1960s during the Cold War, during the Vietnam War, |
| 1:16.0 | during all the tragedies of the 1960s, eyes on the moon. |
| 1:22.0 | We know now that the Americans took the risk of Apollo 8, the first |
| 1:27.6 | spacecraft ever to leave Earth orbit with men on board, took that risk to send it around the moon in December of 1968. |
| 1:37.0 | Why did they rush without a backup system inside? |
| 1:41.0 | They had no backup. There was they were going one way unless they |
| 1:45.7 | could make that burn that came around the moon and came back to Earth. They rushed |
| 1:50.6 | because they'd heard the Russians were about to launch. |
| 1:54.0 | And it totally now takes us to the revelations about that opportunity for the Russians. |
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