PREVIEW: #MOONBASE: #ROSCOSMOS: Conversation with colleague Anatoly Zak of RussianSpaceWeb.com regarding Roscosmos' plan to establish a moonbase in the 1970s, following their loss in the moon race. The discussion will explore how this initiative was inten
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 2 May 2024
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever felt like escaping to your own desert island? |
| 0:04.0 | Jane Gaskin did exactly that, trading in the family home to begin a new life in the |
| 0:09.1 | tropics. |
| 0:10.1 | But she soon discovers that Paradise has its secrets. |
| 0:13.4 | I'm Alice Levine, and this is the price of Paradise, |
| 0:18.0 | the island dream that ends in kidnap, corruption, and murder. Wish you were here. Follow the price of Paradise Now, wherever |
| 0:26.7 | you listen to podcasts. This is John Battler, conversation AnatoleZAC who keeps the extremely helpful Russian |
| 0:36.0 | SpaceWeb.com, a subscription site, The History of Russ Cosmos, Past, Present, future, the launches from Vastachne, but here we discuss the L3M |
| 0:47.3 | project from the 1960s. The Roscosmos plan to continue their moon drive alive even after Apollo 11. |
| 0:57.0 | It's a fantastic project, probably pieces of it now are winding up with the joint China Russian program plan for the landing on the |
| 1:06.0 | moon. This would have been daring and devastating to the space race Cold War, but it's still thinking big. Here's Anatoly's Act to introduce the program |
| 1:17.2 | after Apollo 11. After the Russians lost the race to the moon, they wanted to impress everyone with their ambitions and it is |
| 1:26.1 | impressive more of this later. |
| 1:28.8 | So this is extremely kind of interesting page in space history which is not very well read by even |
| 1:36.3 | historians, let alone by general public. |
| 1:39.0 | So L3M was kind of successor to the failed L33 project which as we know was an attempt to by the by the |
| 1:47.6 | Soviet Union to put Kasman up ahead of the Apollo astronauts on the surface of the moon. |
| 1:53.6 | And of course that failed because Apollo 11 |
| 1:56.2 | managed to get there first. |
| 1:58.2 | And then, of course, the Russian engineers |
| 2:00.9 | were seeking for kind of to find a way how to continue their lunar program |
| 2:06.1 | because the political foundation of this whole project kind of disappeared with NASA doing it first. And they came up. of landed on the moon. They said how about we will do lunar expedition which is much more |
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