if you like or a smirk of his interview coming up. next questioner what mr merkel thank you very much for being with us today to mars five hundred is your idea your project and it's close to its completion the experimenting crew members are about to walk out of this chamber or whatever you call it how does it feel it's been seventeen months are you nervous. of course i'm anxious we were more anxious though when they just walked in now we're looking forward to the end of the experiment of course such extensive isolation will require the crew to spend some time in rehabilitation it would be hard work for us to analyze the results but the very fact that the team managed to stay the

course is a source of delight. with us from the very start there has been much controversy over marse five hundred especially among professionals what i mean is he will say that you can become a formula one driver by spending a year in a house any driver see ordinary people who don't know much about the experiment are likely to ask was the purpose of spending fifty million dollars to isolate six able bodied men from the rest of the world for seventeen months. the purpose is as follows the experiment has been designed to define the limits of human capacities and mission to mars is an idea that's been on people's minds for at least fifty years feasible projects of flights to the red planet were developed as early as in the one nine hundred sixty s. then space exploration took a different course but the beginning of the twenty first century was again marked by growing interest in flights beyond the orbit flights to other planets it will

put space science on a new level in terms of technologies knowledge and extended limits of human capacities that work on the international space station is viewed as a preparation for interplanetary voyages. he says the experiment is supposed to stretch the limits of human capacities how does it give you any specific answers like one can hear in those first three summers who will be the tinier to step onto its surface. as a friend of mine once said it's not even the first step we've only lifted off foot to take that first step before we decide on the equipment that we used in a flight to mars we first need to have an understanding of the limits of the human body his psychological and physiological capacities secondly we need to decide on the amount of resources to be taken along on the way our life support system will operate during such long missions and communications between the crew and the earth will be

a different ballgame in over two flights much of the work rests on the shoulders of the specialists on the ground and interplanetary mission is also characterized by autonomy independence you can't turn back it's a totally different situation and without testing and identifying the primary elements the life support system the volume of the resources needed the human capacities it's difficult to make plans even on and initial design of a future spacecraft research in human capacities should go before the design of a space. raft scientists are quite active in designing new vehicles this is an experimental facility it can serve as a model or give us the data on the real science that we needed for real flight anyway a mission to mars will most likely consist of four crew not six the mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we take in aboard. that was the thing he said the crew members knew with that in any case of emergency scientists can interfere at any point unlike in space and solve the problem you know where that

would be different to space conditions so does this fact devalue the scope of the experiment. no it doesn't although this is a major factor on a real trip you realize that you're away and you cannot make a u. turn even if you wanted to that you will take the road back only after you've reached the goal in contrast the crew locked up here is fully aware that they're not far away from the center of moscow it's very hard to imitate this factor but what we can imitate is the isolation from the outside world although at the same time we seek to keep some form of interaction between the crew and the world because it's a kind of psychological support one of the limitations we've introduced was the ban on direct real time voice contacts and the digital exchange of information was allowed that limitation lost it for four hundred twenty days and when the voice calls were allowed again their faces grew much brighter it raised their mood

a lot before that they led a very isolated life of course like on any space mission they sought ways to vent their dissatisfaction they made friends with the ground control dispatches they had friends and maybe even enemies but in principle this project was marked by a high level of isolation. let's go to. what were the crew motivated what can encourage a person to stay away from their relatives and friends for seventeen months is not really a flight to mars to experiment one make them world famous and proud to be the first to land a nurse we're going with. a group there's a profession called a test engineer and i think i can only count myself as part of this group it's the people who are always one step ahead of what's actually going on in space or in the case of an emergency so they're just enthusiasm. being mankind to move forward not just enthusiastic incident the month is a pretty long period of life but it's really loam for me too i'm among those who've

been affected. there surely paid enough money for that you know this is no big money in my view is it a secret you know it's not. we promise to pay three million rubles we've agreed that the amount of compensation for the europeans and russians will be roughly the same the chinese agency employs different criteria anyway the point i would like to underline is that it's an international crew they've been many concerns that they would split into groups according to the language the chinese member is a representative of a totally different culture and ancient culture because there was a report saying that three months before they experienced scheduled ending the crew members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons a. very avid writers even though they have an opportunity to make voice calls at least with ground control they still write letters and write

a lot. today never separating. them it was never there was a moment though which was during a shared jeweled emergency blackout when any means of communication was cut off they didn't have access to any information it only lasted a week but you know the interesting thing about it was that they didn't complain they said they even liked it it's so quiet they worked in an autonomous mode they had instructions on how to behave and plan of action what do they usually read it he just said these are long messages what's in them what for information channels to transmit medical data in-house information scientific information accumulated for research and experiments and the space crews private correspondence i learned that one person on the team is writing a book i'm not sure what is to become of it but nevertheless and is a book about the experiment. yes the book is about the experiment excerpts of the crew's new books get published this is what distinguishes europeans from the

representatives of russian culture they used to describing their experience in blogs and on live journal pages and rather naturally these publications generate massive response the writers get a lot of information the response by them. so the europeans get some feedback from the public great. republican for exactly the public sends their messages to us first and we redirect them to the crew or there are two sides to this a positive and a negative one if the message contains some distressing reports it may trigger a negative reaction. here. look at a means to the crew members or see who they may know about the war in libya they know that it's nami almost wiped out japan or you screen the information that's coming to them or you know. there would be no global catastrophes or major concern to them for example the news of the explosion adama dead of

a international airport in moscow was not delivered to them immediately at some point so i had to break the news myself in a video address and they were mad at us because we had not inform them earlier despite the sadness of such reports they should be delivered on time withholding information can trigger a negative reaction. because he will don't get any sunlight in the given up on their favorite occupations that some time now what kind of psychological impact is it having is there a risk that purchased. some kind of psychological later he's with us live i'm not sure about the consequences but i do know that a person needs social rehabilitation after such experiments because he practically drops out of his every day life according to a long time i remember one case when a man was afraid of crossing the street after taking part in a long term experiment such things happen they were too. back to normal later of course and even cross the street running in inappropriate places all i want to say

is that such experience always leaves traces a person gets used to living in a capsule his life stereotype undergoes changes everything is planned for him by other people though the crew over the opportunity to take their own decisions or introduce changes from time to time but all the same we really know what we will be doing in a week's time in real life and then everything proceeds according to plan. but what was happening with. any of the crew surprises you personally in what way. do you. yes the chinese participants surprised me i was surprised by the smoothness with which he joined the team he established good stable relations with every crew member there were always certain tensions between people you can't help it but he made really huge progress in the course of the experiment it was always visible he became a professional the russian participant surprised me too in

a way i should say we made the right choices when forming the crew when there was absolutely no dictator among participants no self-proclaimed commander they base their relations on consensus when you can talk and reach an agreement even if something has gone wrong and someone is dissatisfied it's important to be able to put the common cause and interests of this small group of people prior to your own feelings and ambitions. anyone surround them have a chance of taking a part in a real mars. it's a question of trying we don't know when it happens and it's a silly question to ask a question but still been exposed to so many movies about mars missions that it has become almost an obsession to colonize when do you think we will finally make it to inhabit mars is not the same thing is to perform one space trip to mars let's start with the first ship you can't colonize mars without first landing on it it is technically viable there are a number of projects in our design is are working on them but whether we fly to

mars or not depends on two things this space flight should be authorized and international cooperation should be established because it won't be the congressman to one single nation or group of people but rather of the entire global community. was it an intentional decision to leave the woman near it no it was not intentional moreover we had applications from women candidates and in one of their preliminary tests we even had a female commander there are two things that can account for the absence of women on the team we did not make a point of the candidates sex or make distinctions between men and women we looked at the level of proficiency character traits the ability to work on a team and many other qualities. that will never go near no there are different women but personally i would be sorry to put a woman in such conditions because a man can break his daily routine much more easily than a woman it applies to his private life family and even the professional career

woman cannot afford to lose so much time she should never stop collecting coins this is america thank you very much for this interview thank you. three couldn't take three. three arrangements three. three. two three. three. leaders of the world's biggest economies meet for a g. twenty summit were. taken by the euro crisis now intensified by the greek decision

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or stroll by problems for me chunky is a. lot of them out here hundred gold around the great just on the sunny side to the last sixteen. i mean clearly you cry you should. be in basketball surely for an easy win over casey correct. but first the champion's league. were held to a stroll by tribes and sport in turkey last night strike a subdued him by was sent off after a second yellow card the result leaves the army in the group just ahead of the side there on goal difference and four points behind leaders in. lel short of a place in the north that stage. afterwards he felt his side created the chances to take three points even when down to ten men but they will be with that to spend. the next match against. real madrid to reach the last sixteen of the competition.

to know when. scoring both to reach his hundred goal milestone for the club since two thousand and nine one hundred percent record in the group and still having conceded a goal five points behind in. the marine mary says there's still work to be done. when we create so many chances and don't score one can feels it is betraying you but we continued to try and install despite feeling to take their chances we continued to clear well and finally what happened happened i think in the end of performance was very good on a difficult pitch against a team which tried to give everything now we've achieved. we have to hold on to the top place in the group. bunch united moved to the top of group simi model after that senior win over remaining a minuscule r.t. antonio valencia getting the first ball the second was in a goal from kris jenner's stargate so i expect this is mainly the great down on goal difference from benfica three one one with basel two and the united boss was

happy with the night's work. when it was going to be important is that was a position ruined because of drawing the first two matches. perth think that. pleased that. very very good more city goals which is an important fight to the more because. because all the criticism of the team in terms of defending progress. so these are things for us through three games a little with are we going to see a lot i think is a step forward for us. by munich stay on top of group a after three to win it time to not only germany strike america amazing but the first half the trick that although both sides were just ten men in the second half. and it binds holed up like still back picking up double booking just getting

a second in that great offer three no wind up in the reality and i'm looking forward to a clean match but not that. now we have a good chance and we know that. we would be in naples where probably. would be very odd that was important that we i don't feel that these two we need we play very well after the first goal probably was easy but. it was a really important. there also being big european games in basketball to ski moscow remaining um beaten in the euro league with an easy eighty nine forty seven away victory over k.k. zagreb after ten minutes the muscovites with twenty two thirteen up thanks to the efforts of on that kurylenko eventually chipped in with fourteen points and after half an hour that lead had stretched the sixty seven thirty five minute clip stick also in good form top scoring with fifteen points in getting on the end of this breakaway keep control right until the end in croatia recalled their third victory

in three games puts them in charge of group and close to sealing a nearly top sixteen spot take a cigarette have yet to win. another games. league group a with three wins from three after their big three go limpy are cos they're also with one hundred percent record amount of sienna in group d. who began a taxi ride while union olympia got their first winning group d. with victory over second pro comp seventy sixty two to score danny green unstoppable in that one the twenty three points. now it is of on audio is in a race against time to be fit for russia's fed cup final against the czech republic she's struggling with a shoulder injury the end of a long season can seem to top off as the details. the fed cup final is the last tournament in the women's season was a busy month for russia's top players when i know nobody is a beat in three events for d.

during a charitable cheese and accumulate and lead to injuries but the twenty seven year old grand slam winner hopes to be fit to play religion. i've got some problems with my shoulder since i played the cramming a couple i'm going to have some rehabilitation i think everyone's got some interest after such a tight season we still have a few days before the start of the final and i will try my best to be in top form it seems like my you could really ankle was surprised as everyone else when she was selected for the fed cup final however the twenty four year old showed an impressive improvement in her game after a relatively disappointing start to the season. had decided and i was this is it and i even got in a bikini differ some rest so i am further recovered and back to training i was surprised when i was called up for the finals but the captain said the team needs me and i can't dissipate russia in the czech republic have played each other four times and there is nothing between the teams the czechs were crowned five times

with their last final in one thousand nine hundred eight where czechoslovakia defeated the soviet union the previous encounter was in two thousand and one when russia won two one and russia's captain showed me that issue of state the chances for the crown a level from which allies before the start of the compay and we were considered to be the favorites but now i suppose our chances are fifty fifty we won't be under pressure because of that and it would be easier for us to play. the czech republic has led main form be at a computer where i was just one of the w t a championship having two left handed players world number two crito up and looters are far too on the rose to become a serious advantage for the visitors as well as double stock where the bishop and the czechs don't consider themselves as the underdogs for the tight. it's no. i know that i'm number one in the team so it's a little oppression remembering it still but still we have a great team it's difficult definitely for both of the teams and. yeah i feel.

a little advantage on our side. the fed cup final between russia and the czech republic will keep call from certainly. moscow which has already hosted the two thousand and three decider with russia one playing there this time the crowd will expect nothing between three probably if we were is on home soil because they are cheap. finally fresh from claiming golds biggest prize of two million dollars rory mcilroy wants to continue his winning ways in shanghai the in-form no norrish needs more prize money to try to catch top ranked luke donald in the race to dubai donal pulled out of the champions event in china opting to be with his wife diane he was there back to give birth to their second child and his absence opens the door for world number three mcelroy the u.s. open champion did cash in at the invitational shanghai masters last week but that event was not sanctioned by any major taught at the money did not and

a mcelroy looks to cut the gap on donald who leads him by almost two million dollars in the european money list donal has already secured the top title on the p.g.a. tour mcelroy has enough events left on the calendar to deny the englishman and the story. the most important thing for me at the minute is just to concentrate on my goals and make that the primary focus which it always has been. you know that i've got a good run coming up to the end of the season the us is a big week and you are looking forward to playing with the world cup and then of you know hong kong in dubai look forward to again to try and you know to come into looks lead so. you know i'm trying this is concentrate on and finish finishing this year off really well. so that's all the sport for the moment we're back again into ass with more.

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