question what mr merkel thank you very much for being with us today five hundred is your idea of your purchase and it's close to its completion the experimenting members are about to walk out of this whatever you call it how does it feel it's been seventeen months are you nervous. at all and 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 will 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 what the program must be from the very start there has

been much controversy over marse five hundred especially among professionals when i mean it's people say that you can become a formula one driver by spending a year and i have 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 or seventy not. unless of course for the purpose is as follows the experiment has been designed to define the limits of human capacities the 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 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 from. here the experiment is supposed to stretch the limits of human capacities so does it give you any specific answers like one can he in those first three summers who will be the heinie or to step onto its surface. as a friend of mine once said it's not even the first step we've only lifted off 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 spacecraft though our 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 where the mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we take in aboard. the. thing is that the crew members know that in any case of emergency scientists can interfere at any point unlike in space and solve the problem in a way that would be different to space conditions so does this fact devalue the

scope of the experiment was more than. a dozen 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 that 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 fact sam 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 with renault and alex goes. well where the crew motivated and encouraged a person to stay away from their relatives and friends for seventeen months is not really a flight to mars city experiment one make them world famous and proud to be the first to land a nurse we're going with. the group or 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 infuse he asked incident he months is a pretty long period of life but it's really a loan for me too i'm among those who've been affected. longer 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 when 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 the experience casuals ending the crew members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons even the 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. to they never stop writing. it was never there was

a moment though which was during the show george 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 on site on how to behave and plan of action and 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 crew's 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 accents of the crews no 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 informational response three days what with so the europeans get some feedback from the public very. much that the republican push for exactly the public sends their messages to us first and we redirect them to the crude work of there are two sides to this is a positive and a negative one that if the message contains some distressing reports it may trigger a negative reaction. here that's always present with look at a means to the crew members were seen here they even know about the war in libya they know that it's an army almost right there in japan or do you screen the information that's coming to them or no. prob there would be no global catastrophes or a major concern to them for example the news of the explosion adama dead of 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 informed the malia despite the sadness of such reports they should be delivered on time withholding information can trigger a negative reaction to. get any sunlight in the given up on their favorite occupations that some time now what kind of psychological impact is it have is there a risk that the. kind of psychological later. with no 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 the 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 of a person gets used to living in

a capsule is like a stereotype and a ghost changes everything is planned for him by other people there 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 we used but was putting my from. any of the crew surprise you personally in what we. do you mean yes the chinese participants surprised me when 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 a really huge progress in the course of the experiment it was always visible and he became a professional for the russian participants 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 from then have a chance of taking a part in his remarks at the well it's a question of time we don't know when it happens and it's a silly question to ask of sessional 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 that's a start with a first trip you can't colonize mars without first landing on it it is technically viable there are a number of projects in our design is all 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 that i would suppose it an intentional decision to leave the near it no it was not intentional moreover that we had applications from women candidates and in one of their preliminary tests and 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 candidate sex or make distinctions between men and women of what we looked at the level of proficiency character traits the ability to work on a team and many other qualities. the women as we. know 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

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get small gold this is beyond me and i'll tell goalless draw against problems for the champions league. cruising in croatia since carl remain unbeaten in schools you're really easy when you saw greg. biffle first in the europa league. on publishing his top. of the two time rushing champions needing a result to keep alive their hopes of making the next runs over in third place in the group of points behind the free behind the lead this was one of only two games left rubin contour for to let those gaps get any bigger at coach that india is unlikely to make any changes to the side drew with over the weekend with guineas covered in years said xander. nelson walvis leading the free problem to tank. spurs boss harry redknapp won't be out again as you were covering in the u.k.

after undergoing minor heart surgery roman pavlyuchenko is expected to start in a tank the russian striker school the only go on the sides met last time out and he could partner jermain defoe up front as well out of the side with the queens park rangers last weekend. could go a long way to securing their place in the knockout stage win tonight against ike after inseam greece and that would almost do violet's providing group al leaders under let's get a victory of the storm. loco boss jose conseco selection problems vote. with six players i was injured but i like men i had seven assigned lined including icelandic striker either good young son who has a broken leg. when once the ten month. goal is drawn. in the champions league in form striker. was sent off in the seventy five minutes for a second book couple of frames problems ollie's the only one second in the group just

ahead of the older friends and four points behind the leaders in the one to be. looked to be all but assured of a place in the knockout stages coach. said afterwards he called his side creative a chance to take the free points and even vote it was down to ten men. suspended don't be our next match and we'll three weeks time. elsewhere real madrid reach the last sixteen of the competition author of when it leaves christiane although scoring both to reach his hundred golmaal stone the club since moving there in two thousand and nine five points behind in second place on all the threshing of the nominee zagreb the real coach says there's still work to be done. when we create so many chances and don't score one confuses food bill is betraying you but we continued to try and didn't despite feeling to take our chances we continued to clear well and finally what happened happened i think in the end their

performance was very good on a difficult pitch against a team which tried to give everything now we've achieved our objective we have to hold on to the top place in the group. but if you go in all and you need to move towards a group c. up a bit you know when a mania galati i'm talking about getting the first ball the second was an open goal this time sort of meet some explosions mainly the group on goal difference from better through one one with basel. munich stay on top of group from two went out into the napoli germany striker mario go. first trick and the city there of the second opportunity to win at the last hero. for years because bonds get more clubs also competing against each other. remain unbeaten in the euro lead of an easy eighty nine points the forty seven away victory and zagreb well up to ten minutes from moscow it's already twenty two to thirteen armstrongs to the efforts of andre kirilenko who eventually chipped in with fourteen of half an hour

but leave had strange to sixty seven to thirty five here and please teach also in good form top scoring with fifteen getting on the end of the. serious car keeping control rise until the end in croatia to recall the first victory in three games and that puts a very mean charge of group b. and close to ceiling early top sixteen spots they have yet to win a game. while another much is. league group a with three wins and three of their victory over the course also with hundred percent record sienna in group d. . more union olympia go bad first win in green tea with victory over pro-communist seventy to sixty two to score danny green while he was unstoppable among one of twenty three points. but on the tennis invaders one of the all there is in a race against time to be fit for russia's fed cup final against the czech republic

he's four and a lot at number seven is struggling with a shoulder injury at the end of a long season constantin but top of his body tells. the fed cup final is the last tournament in the women's season it was a busy month for russia's top player as well known who participated in three events for deep during the old season accumulate and lead to injuries but the twenty seven year old grand slam winner hopes to be fit to play. i've got some problems with my shoulder since i played the cameo 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 and it seems like money could really think i 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 a solid and i was

a citizen and i even got to the for two different some rest so i am fully recovered and that's the training i was surprised when i was called up for the finals and 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 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 the issue of state the chances for the crown a level to michel is 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 is led by informed people a computer i was just one of the w t a championship having to. left handed players world number two and looters suffered to only rose to become a serious advantage for the visitors as well as double stock where the big and the

czechs don't consider themselves as the on the docks for the tie. it's go home and i know that i'm number one in the team so it's a little oppression my own being it's 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 oh the fed cup final between russia and the czech republic will keep call from saturday italian peacekeeper renay 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 for their favorites on home soil his name but are both are a cheap overstretched why socking away cover better of say a skier in a cage show a shootout finally separating the sides who each had a player to the fighting for the tears came into the game bought some of the western conference but in high spirits up to winning the last four home

a set this one one serious caused also a very lashed with jeremy blonsky in the first period when they came in the second mission is only coming in to that office on the ground and both players were given much penalties. i assume it's later i would say yashin put me on the run ahead and make a musky to level the match which was eventually decided by a shootout with a goalie but also give me time to spare fifty one in a row operatives cause a bit of play in the brawl wasn't a hint of a moment clash but one that had been planned by the before the match and started. this happened before in north america you're allowed to fight three times before you get kicked out i never had three before. but i've had to refute. and. you know not not really maybe exactly like it was. like he was said though particularly just

for a lot of times they happen out of the heat in a lot of battles. so there were some differences that. for the top pakistan cricketers have been jailed after being found guilty of fixing one hundred or so you've seen here was sentenced to twelve months behind bars being found guilty the court in london however his captain at the time someone got a much stiffer turn the twenty seven year old receiving its two and a half years for his parts in the spot fixing scandal one mind ten year old mohammed amir who admitted being part of a betting scam before the trial began was given six months well in return for the money or free plotted to deliberately bowl no balls at certain times during a test match against england at lord's last summer their age and. the heaviest sentence spent three years and eight months in jail. finally the fast rising

american keegan bradley has a two shot lead of the first round of the w g c h.s.b.c. champions tournament in shanghai where he won the us p.g.a. championship earlier this year his action is rookie season and carded a focal a seven under par sixty five in china a lot of puts him a couple of shots ahead of compound one pelt and sweden's free up some six northern preach on one of the favorites rory mcilroy it's our chance back felt ok i mean especially after this new start feel is a product a lot of shots like there could have been a lot lower but you know seventy years in a disastrous start and you know something we're going to build on right now today more sport coming up in around two hours time to straighten things out see what is coming up next the headlines with rory.

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