Guests: John Batchelor, Anatoly Zak, Dr. David Livingston.  Topics:  Perseverance, Mars rovers, fixing the ISS leak and the proposed Russian and Chine lunar base agreement.

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John Batchelor and I welcomed back Anatoly Zak of www.russianspaceweb.com to discuss the Perseverance on mars, the upcoming helicopter flight in the thin Martian atmosphere, Curiosity progress, plus we talked about the ISS leak in the Russian segment, the effort to repair it, the materials used in the repair, the impact of the leak on the remaining life of the ISS and related items.  In the second segment, we discussed the agreement with China and Russia on establishing a lunar base together in the not too distant future.  Don't miss this discussion as Anatoly had much to say about past track records suggesting the outcome of this new joint lunar base development project.  This Hotel Mars program consisted of two segments.

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