out of the crisis and the truth behind why it's happening. and with libya taken care of london has named somalia a failed state britain's security services have called it a new training ground for terrorists leading to speculation that an invasion could be next. step we speak with the would be space explorers who simulated a hundred million kilometer round trip to the red planet spotlight coming up. hello again a welcome to spotlight. time al here in our own today we're talking about traveling to mars since the very beginning of space exploration era humans never stop dreaming of going to other planets and the twentieth century you've got that in space flight and later the apollo moon missions were the first steps on this one

and now it's time to go to mars and though a real man who mission is only being planned yet there are men on earth who've already tried it out thanks to russian took knowledge how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth we're asking alexander small yes and to be left to spend a year in a hall and it costs a capsule as part of russian experiment simulating a flight to mars. scientists estimate a manned mission to mars may cost from fifty to five hundred billion dollars such a huge prize and the daunting definite logical challenge means the cherished dream is decades away yeah the world's main space agency is cannot help but prepare for the future interplanetary flight and one of the biggest steps towards it is the russian water supply a hundred project. it featured six international space sunshine fresh air and

loved ones for more than five hundred days in a cramped space ship like capsule researches say the project was a quiet for the future a real mission as approved such a long space flight could be possible. welcome to the show thank you very much for me. this well and the first question i wanted to ask you do true choir a lot of imagination i mean your imagination the crew's imagination to really. talk yourself into being a part of a mars expedition did you really well it's really hard to imagine yourself in space or were this simulation was so authentic that that it didn't require much imagination. well some. of this simulation where very realistic. the more not to me that is something that you can expect for sure in

a trip to mars we experience that firsthand was very realistic there are some parts of a simulation for example when we have to hatch out samples for the scientists to analyze we had stem through to another look and we can hear it when the the open the are located because we are looking to get the samples so that that a little bit breaks the fantasy you know. so more parts like the martian landing were realistic and we almost fell that we were on mars was it first there was a look at it from going you know no noise to really stick parts of us when we simulate mars because so we was in real space you want to keep your space you know which may be we'll use in kong a real space flight. and we make real work would take samples by real instruments. we live in the

pretty poor for a real. home where which can use on. i found. very artistic i was on the show because somewhere i was absolutely fascinated from. all we cannot. see. or having to have a. t.v. internet tough false life and i said well let's take a look at what the simulated flight to mars was all about and reported by spotlights you lend it to me there are. thousands of volunteers wanted to take part but only six which shows and for the experiment the simulation of a flight to mars they were locked inside the mock spacecraft for seventeen months

and although they didn't have to experience the takeoff or the weightlessness of real space they had to survive the monotony of more than five days in isolation and without sunlight what made the most flight more realistic was the forty minute do in communication with the outside world which imitated the communication lag between mars and the emergency situations were also staged to see how the team would go to cruise trip climaxed in the simulated landing on mars but the experiment wasn't so much about plane it cosmonaut trying to cool would be cut off from the rest of the world for such a long time though did participants could leave their confinement attend a time all of them stayed on board to to stay in durance scientists are now provided with some priceless psychological and medical information concerning the facts of long term isolation on humans.

there was no zero gravity as i understand you in this light alexander but it didn't make much difference i mean being without zero gravity does remind you all the time that you are on mother earth. oh we cannot make zero gravity because this is absolutely impossible and sometimes here is a but before we do it in sunday's. make simulation of. conditions. you mung. bean in zero gravity you know during the flight you carried out a lot of experiments like five hundred twenty days you were so what what was the use of carrying out experiments when you actually were all no was it worth it

yes indeed there are many experiments we can expect that give us insight into what the crew will go true it's what the correspondent said and it's what was mainly psychological experiments like experimenting on yourselves like psychological but as well some some of the face of your logical aspects not everything because of course you don't have the radiation and you don't have the microgravity and this is clear to us but there are some other aspects for example we couldn't move too much during the during the mission because we are in a very confined space so we can expect some deterioration off or state of health and this is something that the scientists are very interesting and interested in now lasting or added to ration if in our immunological system they are there is very interesting for a scientist the idea of this flight is for his own distant was to get you into an unpredicted situation some sort of a next to the something did that happen we had a couple of simulated emergencies there was one big cut off the lights and we got

that into lately is that mean exactly a blackout and we didn't know that this was a simulation and we thought that it was completely real so we have to go to certain procedures that we had to do to save the food from the fried. just. and we had to calculate how much oxygen we were we had left we had a couple of days we were. we did in freak out because of this situation and this is something that for example the psychologist we're very interested in now waxing reporters just reminded us that you could leave the capsule at any time during those five hundred days or any one of the did you or any other member of the crew. have an idea of quitting of getting out for me it was very difficult. but dissipate in this experiment. i never. go from never

never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the isolation how did you find the stress media games is something. you know i. very much free times because i have many work. medical experiments. i have so much stress because of your situation is normal for me. i make the same water which i made before experiment. if i have. free time so i read a special literature about biological and other. films we've grown members. sometimes we play a game of most most often it was

a contest. and who who is better. if you want really who is going to go as far as an ecommerce drugs team to team yeah you might want to we had to rush against the rest of the world so who. fifty fiftieth's well it says so did you really have dia good did you really have problems with interaction with each other or not really. of course you can expect some situations natural situations with your coworkers were maybe you thinking that the from way that we were expecting. in normal space flight or in this kind of simulations you showed you could expect some wherry bad situations that can happen and they never happened in our case so we were really cohesive group and we had a small frictions but we managed to solve all of them successfully and you said you're playing russian and here's the rest of the world so there was this sort of

a feeling that these are the russians and the that and these are the rest. there was not a big separation we were as i said very cohesive. for example for you know communicating in there in the game it was between the russians and it was more effective yes because of that did the russian speaking russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english. not for not from a scandal speak very good. so when you spoke to each other i mean the russian russian or english. must often always speak on english. speaking between themselves and between ourselves so one of the. most difficult in this situation arose because he cannot speak in on chinese. i see well these are alexander small the esky and diego would be the participants

of the mars five hundred experience spotlight will be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue in less than a. wealthy british style some time to explain the. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars

a report. on the money with the business of russia news business. lucky lucky . welcome back to the spotlight love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are out there yes he and diego will be in put this appearance of the mars five hundred experiment and experiment in which a trip to mars was simulated in a cab so in here in russia. during. your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight hours of sleep eight hours of work and eight hours of

leisure. in the army what do you think this was right this is the right thing to do or you have you would have shifted a little bit of change that's the average you know in hours and hours and hours but there were some days in which you were working more and more than eight hours you could have easily and some days in which you have less workload that is something you can expect in a mars mission so would you have to handle these very very well the basic special base in which there's less workload because they can actually be quite difficult while you were a crew of pretty young people didn't go to sleep would be more than eight hours i remember when i was in the army the only think i wanted it was to sleep in who or what we're supposed to happen to the house when you have a lot of movement you have walked all day in the streets and you spend a lot of energy in here as you move in between very short distances so perhaps you

get older you will be less tired but you do physical or so. do you have enough of physical oh is it going to be to you or are you sure you missed it here every day with. physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes of this yes every day but. very different. for tired it went one kind of training course a very easy course very hard. what about the food was the food depressing i mean eating the same kind of stuff i mean every day what would you eat this food again today or never again so the food was actually quite good perhaps i wouldn't need right now because i have been getting it for so goes away it wasn't what we see in movies like toothpaste you know that stuff no no in reality we have you know some meat some fish meat and so much things that you basically you have to add

water to or put them in the microwave and they are very similar to the food that we have here except they have to re more compact and less heavy so is this the kind of food that astronauts really need these days that would they have to and you had enough of that food for five hundred days i mean on board it was more than off yeah yeah really so so so tell us how would you for example celebrate your birthday this year and sort of a table without food from the station or you'd rather buy something in the local supermarket on her own holiday or her birthday we can eat. and we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. time for for a special holiday as we do it perhaps the. loss of sarah she loves chocolates or his birthday we grab him lots of. mice or you were supposed to cultivate

fresh the balls that vegetables on board as a as a supplement to the two to to your daily ration who was the gardener and it wasn't me you know you were the gardener ok so and was a real rewarding i mean i mean fresh vegetables and bone i cannot speak of what all of remember me said about fresh vegetables but some of us. could vegetable very much for example. a little bit less. but. i don't like to much room for us so for for us unless you nuff afford it for sweet i see so so so so it was from food to grow the most of all but you didn't really need them and yes i am. changed into chocolates and. yes some

very sparsely outrage over it for chocolate though there should have been. communication. i have different information some people say the delay so for example if you wanted to to communicate. with your relatives with your friends via internet so people say twenty minutes delay some people say it was forty minutes delay or did it depend on the distance i mean from those who really distance grew. however that is true i would have killed the computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that get well actually. sewing two minutes by one say i am in no hurry once. you push the envelope. i went from forty one in a way to deal with that and. in fact the man who arrived twice a day we didn't get in if we send something we don't and we don't get the answer every forty minutes we get a maybe in twelve hours because there are two slots during the day which we can

exchange e-mails so that should have been the killer in me i mean this was warranted and i would have communicated you with the fly control center you did have you didn't have a lot like the slots time slots when you when you had communication with them know when to fly control center that that happened we were in earth's orbit because we were behind the earth or we were when we were on mars because we're behind mars interplanetary flight we have the communication all the time will towards with this delay your twenty minutes movement well we saw a picture right now in this screen of sort of a simulated space walk was this is space walk on morse or was it like a route around the spaceship. which crandell for space work while when you went out and spent we'll work something out to see if you know what it's who was somewhat nation or for. mars source face on the sort of his more

recent but we use. or for instrumental. we need to use and. there were designed for the moon landing and saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. prepared in special special forty six ok now one of the one of the main subjects that was discussed when you were going to five hundred years was women i think got to be any women where well actually is first i know women were excluded from taking part in the crew in order to i quote to avoid the possibility of sexual tension or competition. well looking back was this a justified decision were they right or you would have preferred if you had a couple of years of i don't know if i said are as far as i know there were some

there were some candidates along with me in this election so i don't know the reason why do you exclude them are however i think it is quite possible for for a woman just have to be a psychological two to today's situation. do you think it would have been more fun if you had if you had women aboard were like keeping it there like a one to what i think has been you people who participate in the flights that we've told to watch this is the more difficult without me in real life. what do you see more difficult this sort of a sexual competition that quoting her work. because. too many conflicts now on sexual health do so with the women or because they're all around where we have the all women and the. and between homo man.

yes so it certainly adds some complexity to situation but i think proper selection it can be done well this is this is a life complex it is life so in real life you feel something and we have money you can go from. your. and if you live how you want if it was for you well. suppose you go on real issues on you or you have to send the guys on the real issue to five hundred degrees in outer space what would be your decision to send the whole meal crew or to mix sexes. i think it would be interesting to make a more experiment with mixed sexes to see how it works out i think it could be a good idea if there is a good bone and you know. i think you look for an all male crew let's start

a little bit we are well i feel. your want tauriel spaceflight your need to use my own crew ok would you yourself any of you or maybe if you talked to your friends after you made this experiment choose to go on a real mission to mars or this was an earth. larry oh yeah i would have to actually go dark and you hear so i want to try to tell. all about the medics didn't the medics have to do all those experiments have to you out of the did they find any negative results of this experiment. during commission where my medical examination but. not find. very different do very dangerous. changes. and after finishing the experiment that

we make more. concrete the medical examination but now we didn't notice also research this is calculated. after so many days being looked up to get there i used to add because you see children in their lives and the other members of the general problem we have been working together on were planning to go out in the evening and yeah i mean no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of hearing for the future. because i mean i mean you know you proved that you can that you can be a perfect partner in any closed closed environment for so long so i mean every one of you not only you two but the others are really perfect for being for being building real families in the future thank you thank you and all the luck in life thank you very much and thank you to remind you that my guests today were alexander

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