that's what mr merkel thank you very much for being with us today to mars five hundred is your idea of your purchase and it's close to its completion the expert mantle members are about to walk out of this chamber whatever 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 will be hard work for us to analyze the results but at the very fact that the team managed to stay the course is a source of delight. with what the ground must be from the very start there has

been much controversy over marse five hundred especially among professionals what i mean it's evil say that you can become a formula one driver by spending a year in a house any driver sick 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. and whistle for the purpose is as follows the experiment has been designed to define the limits of human capacities a 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. their work on the international space station is viewed as

a preparation for into planetary 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 means first teresa mars who will be the shiny 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 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 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 or more the mission will need to cut the amount of resources that we take in aboard. that was the thing is that the crew members knew 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 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 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 lasted 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 would remove him from alex goes. well where the crew motivated and 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 learn a nurse we're going to first of all bet we took 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. helping mankind to move forward not just infuse he asked incident the month is a really long period of life it's really loam for me too i'm among those who've been affected. but there are 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 cream you know we've promised to pay three million roubles 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 they experienced scheduled ending the crew members stopped writing letters is it true and if yes what are the reasons. and they're very avid writers even now 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. was never there was a moment though which was during a 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 autonomous mode they had instructions 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 excerpts of the crew's notebooks get published this is what distinguishes europeans from the representatives of russian culture they used to describe in 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 would say to the europeans get some feedback from the public very. republican place where exactly the public sends their messages to us first and we read direct them to the crew more 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 for the. good of means to the crew members are seen here they even know about the war in libya they know that it's now me almost right there 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 malia 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 so late in the given up on their favorite occupations birth but some time now what kind of psychological impact is it has zero risk that. kind of psychological follow on later. with thinking from 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 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 it goes 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 we used but was putting my thumbs. any of the crew surprises you personally in what we did. you. yes the chinese participants surprised me when i was surprised by the smoothness with which he joined the team he stablish 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. does anyone from then have a chance of taking a part in his remarks or to vote 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 going 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's face trip to mars that's where the 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's the was it an intentional decision to leave. it no it was not intentional moreover that we had applications from women candidates and in one of their preliminary tests like 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's 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 of the qualities of the woman 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 this is america thank you very much for this interview thank you.

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champions under those are ways to approach is failing to impress already in the season. and ready to rumble local host didn't leave it if it's half a kilo going into his cruiserweight fights against the american james toney. football first hand in the europa league will be an entertainer on public tottenham because of the two time russian champions needing a result to keep alive reaching the next round and third place in their group of the moments a point behind public saloniki and free behind the leaders spurs are only two games left for being calm afford to let those gaps get any bigger head coach poor dear is unlikely to make any changes to the side the group of us over the weekend can these kind of been years of xander. involved is leading a free pronged attack. spurs boss harry redknapp will be at the game he's recovering in the u.k. after undergoing minor heart surgery problems publishing co is expected to start an

attack by russia strike at school the only goal in the sides met last time out could be partnered up front by jermain defoe left out of the side of the queens park rangers last weekend all that much is due to get underway in around ten minutes time. the look on the t.v. moscow could go a long way to securing their place in the knockout stages when tonight you can see like athens and greece all but do violence providing group leaders under legs also get a picture of the storm gods go balls to syria as selection problems for over six players . yes i was injured but i have met out so seven a side by and including stryker i had a good young son who has a broken leg. there on the tennis in bed as one of the all over is in a race against time to be fit for russia's fed cup final against the czech republic this weekend while number seven is struggling with a shoulder injury at the end of a long season constantin but up of as for details. the fed cup final is the last

tournament in the women's season back to what was a busy month for russia's top players as we now know who participated in three events for dig during a season accumulate and lead to injuries but the twenty seven year old grand slam winner hopes to be fit to play but he. has got some problems with my shoulder since i played the camera i'm going through some rehabilitation and 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 anchor were 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 would this is it and even got to that but you different some rest so i am fully recovered and that's to train 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 and

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 four i know in one thousand nine hundred eighty 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 little to mitchell as usual the start of the compay and we were considered to be the favorites but now i suppose our chances are fifty fifty we will be under pressure because of that and it would be easier for us to play. the czech republic is led by informed people are key to what i was just one day w t a championship having two left handed players world number two couture and looters are far too on the rose to become a serious advantage for the visitors as well as double stockier that bish and the czechs don't consider themselves as the underdogs for the tie. it's go home and i know that i'm number one in the team so it's

a little oppression remembering 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 key call from saturday at their own peacekeeper arena in moscow which has already hosted the two thousand and three decider with russia one playing there this time the crowd will expect nothing but to beat three for their favorites on home soil his name but are both are a cheap. switch twice socking away the tears got the better of saskia moscow in a cage show a shootout finally separating the sides and each had a player ejected for fighting but has came into the game of the bottom a western conference but in high spirits after winning the last four. however the tone was set for this one serious cause d'arcy harsh with jeremy blonsky in the first period. i. bet i can in

the second the shoals finally coming in a bit off the ground or both players were given much penalties but two minutes later alex a young shin of the army and head only nicked out on skiing to level the match which was eventually decided by sheer talent i could go to but also have given me to his fifth win in a row the offer to ask was better or claimed the brawl wasn't a hint of a moment trash but one of them planned by dint is before the much had started. a cage all season is less than two months old but both are getting cup finalists from last season have already sang to bare respective coaches after a less than impressive starts to the new campaign runners up but one split company with the league's first swedish coach into the early stops on this and the maiden specialist was the first ever trainer when both the olympics and the world championships in the same year back in two thousand and six but the fifty three

year old failed to make an impact in russia steering it to just nine wins in seventeen games so far this season while the reigning champions all about you live . again because of his tenure at the club for just five months. russian cruiserweights denise libby of has weighed in half a kilo lighter than his opponent james toney interim w b a time to fight in moscow on friday a local thirty two year old who is considered one of the best cruiserweights in the business will start as a favorite his american opponent who is now forty three maybe i'm a twilight of his career but what a career has been his one world ties that free different weight categories he's only lost six of the four career buyouts. three top pakistan cricket is have been jailed after they were found guilty of match fixing mohammed a cif seen here was sentenced to twelve months behind bars after being found guilty of course in london however his canteen at the time someone bart scott

a much stiffer term twenty seven year old receiving two and a half years for his part in this fixing scandal was nineteen year old mohammed amir who's admitted to being part of a betting scam before the trial began was given six months in return for violently three had plotted to deliberately bolt no balls or so sometimes you're in a trance which is going to england at lord's last summer of agent behavior sentence and will spend two years eight months in jail. they could develop for rampant corruption and the grim of cricket. the vast majority of players are not credibly skilled play with great sportsmanship but the ethical approach to the game the true spirit of cricket. but equally on fortune would have to say it's probably not absolutely isolated that we can never be complacent we can never drop we must be ever vigilant and we will be everything to. something great in four says he

feels both nervous and excited about his comeback after five years away from the pole the twenty nine year old australian is due to take part in a short course tournament in singapore his first competitive outing since quitting in two thousand and six will test the water with a one hundred metre metally on friday before switching to the one hundred meter butterfly a day later however freestylers faults favored events giving him his five olympic medals all to my goal is to once again swim freestyle at next summer's london olympics straight is most decorated athletes trials in adelaide in four months time . it's my first time back in the pool it's not going to be easy. but it becomes an important step for what i'm looking to do next year and you know with that in mind you know this is kind of the starting point and it will be good that you know i finally have an opportunity to write. golf involves rising american

keegan bradley has a two shot lead the first round of the w. g.c. h.s.b.c. championships tournament in shanghai and he won the u.s. p.g.a. championship earlier this year which is rookie season i'm carted off was seven on the past sixty five in china puts a couple of chances at a compound trip peled sweden spread to. alex not a retirement favorite rory mcilroy five shots back. it felt ok i mean especially after the slow start i feel as if i left a lot of shots there could have been a lot lower but you know seventy is no doubt disastrous start and you know something i'm going to actually build on finally kelly slater has created even more surfing history after the legendary american seal an unprecedented eleven for title in san francisco retaining his crown one more then left on the wall to wall how and thirty nine the oldest champion in sports history history he also became the

youngest ever season winner of the claiming that it was incredible eleven titles at the tender age of twenty slater shattered the previous record of five world titles straight is richard's back in ninety eight it's unlikely that feat ever beaten. but i would out today it's more sport coming up in just two hours time we'll have all the latest from the europa league stage into our t.v. with us coming up next and bill will be here with. world. do you believe this in science and technology from around the world. we've got the huge you're covered.

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