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It is late winter

1968.

Ross Cosmos by Canard Cosmodrome, the launch of a vehicle called Zand Four.

Zand Four to March 1968, the idea was to prep a moon landing. I welcome Bob Zimmerman. He's the

author of Genesis, the story of Apollo 8, the first man flight to another world.

Bob, a very good evening to you.

Ross Cosmos, the Soviet program, and NASA, the American program, were in a moon race. At this point both had

recovered from catastrophes and they were preparing for their march to moon

landing. What was on? What was the Zahn series that's so fascinated,

worried, and made NASA hurry up its plans? Good evening to you, Bob.

Good evening to you Bob. Good evening John. It was a moon race. It was actually

it was a neck-and-neck moon race in many ways. What the Russian Soviets were doing was they had they had gotten into orbit and

successfully started to use manned their Soyuz capsule the very first

iteration of it and what they did with the Zand program was

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