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he could be in your british taxi human rights activists flight surgeon surveillance cameras which are now to be installed in every taxi in the city of oxford recording not just video but audio was well authorities insist that the risk of personal intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits. those where the headlines coming out are to speak to the participants of a unique russian space experiment they've spent a year and a half in the capsule to simulate a flight to mars spotlight is next. hello again a welcome to spotlight. time al here in our rented a we're talking about traveling to mars since the very beginning of the space exploration era humans never stop dreaming of the other planets in the twentieth

century you had in space flight and later the apollo moon missions were the first steps this way and now it's time to go to mars and though a real man mission is only being planned yet there are men on earth who've already tried it out thanks to russian technology 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 cost 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 deck no logical challenge means the cherished dream is decades away yeah the world's main space agencies can not help but prepare for the future interplanetary flight and one of the biggest steps towards it is the

rushing water supply a hundred project. the featured six international space much 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 it proved such a long space why it could be possible. san diego welcome to the show thank you very much for me. this well and the first question i wanted to ask you did you true choir a lot of imagination i mean your imagination the cruise imagination to really. talk yourself into being a part of america morris expedition did you really well it really hard to imagine yourself in space or were this simulation was so authentic that that it didn't require much regulation. 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 they be opened they are located because we are looking to get the samples so that a little bit breaks the fantasy you know. so more parts like the martian landing were pretty realistic and we almost fell that we were on mars wasn't for them so you look at it from the way i mean no no no i must really stick parts of us when we simulate mars because so we use in real space you want to keep your space you would which may be we'll use in kong a real space flight. and we make real work we take

samples by instruments. we live in the pretty poor for a real. home where which can give us on. a realistic go was. because we was absolutely the latest from. wall. we cannot. see. or have and those who have. gotten out false life and i say well let's take a look at what the simulated flight to mars was all about in reported by spotlights you land there jimmy 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 of 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 comb the crew's trip climaxed in the simulated landing on mars but the experiment wasn't so much about plane of the cosmonaut devout trying to cool would be cut off from the rest of the world for such a long time though the participants could leave their confinement at any time all of them stayed on board to endure and 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 is our understanding this light alexander but it didn't make much difference i mean being without zero gravity this remind you all the time that you are on mother earth. or you can not make zero gravity because he says absolutely impossible for such a long time and there's a. but before we do it in sunday's. make simulation of. conditions. human. being 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 or know was it worth it

yes indeed there are many experiments we can expect that give us insight into what crew will go true it's what the correspondent said that what was mainly psychological experiments like experimenting on yourselves like psychological but as well some some of the feis 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 lighting or added to ration if in our immunological system there are very very interesting point scientists the idea of this whole flight is frozen and this turn was to get you into an unpredicted situation some sort of

a next to the something did that happen we had a couple of. a simulated emergencies there was one they cut off the. system we had a blackout and we didn't know that this was a simulation and we thought that it was completely real so we had to go to certain procedures that we had to do to save the food from the free just cetera 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 lighting 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 had an idea of quitting of getting out for me it was very difficult. participate in this experiment. i never.

go out for never never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the isolation how did you find the stress like like video games or something sports nor i. very much free times because i have many work. biological and 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 special literature about biological. films we've grown members. sometimes we play

a game most most often it was a counter strike mr thirteen. who is better. if you want really good he was going to go but as far as i know cameras drugs play team to team visit yeah you might want to we had to rush against the rest of the world so who was. fifty fifty well. so did you really have diego did you really have problems with interaction with each other. i don't not really. of course you can expect some situations natural situations with your coworkers were maybe you thinking that the from the way. we were expecting. in normal space flight or in this kind of simulations you showed you could expect some very 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 i think it'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 while 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 easier between the russians and it was more effective yes because of that did russia speak russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english. not for north from us can speak very good. so when you spoke to each other i mean the russians you think russian or english. most often always speak on english or russian speak between between themselves and between ourselves or russian this person on. the phone was difficult in this situation it was because he cannot speak

in on chain yes with a little but i see well these are alexander small yes he had to be the participants of the mars five hundred experience spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue to invest in a. wealthy british style.

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welcome back to the spotlight love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are alexander small yes he and diego will be in the participants of the mars five hundred experiment an experiment in which a trip to mars was simulated in a cab so in here in russia. during the ngo your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight eight hours of sleep eight hours a work eight hours a 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 o. if change are bad that's the average you know in our side our side ours 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 the big can actually be quite difficult well you were a crew of pretty young people didn't you to sleep a bit more than eight hours i remember when i was in the army the only thing i wanted it was this lake who are what we're supposed to happen to her 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 over you will be less tired but you do physicalists scenario. did you have enough of physical i was able to if you were or are you sure you missed it every day with. physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes

. yes every day but. each of us very different for for tighter there ain't 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 would have needed right now because i have been giving it foresaw goes away it wasn't what we see in movies like toothpaste you know that stuff oh 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 there 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 the food that astros really these days that is if we have to and you had enough of that food for five hundred days i mean on board it was more of an offer you

really really so so so alexander would you for example. 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 not eat. we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. or for a special holidays we do perhaps the. loss of sarah she loves chocolates or things birthday we grab him lots of joe you know i said listen you were supposed to cultivate fresh that appeals that vegetables on board as a as a supplement to the to the daily ration who was the gardener and it wasn't me you know you were the gardener ok so and was it really rewarding i mean i mean

fresh vegetables and bone i cannot speak. what all of remember me said about fresh vegetables but some of us. like. vegetable very much for example crop. a little bit less. but. don't like so much room for us so for for us unless you nuff afford it for so many i see so so so so it was firm to grow the vegetables but you didn't really need them and yes i am. changed into chocolates and yes yes some very seriously that i would trade i referred for to chocolate now there should be. 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 simulated distance grew the delay grew and delayed however the true i would have killed the computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that get well actually. going to mean its by one say i am in no hurry once the routing and so you know you push the envelope and wait for no no wait till then. in fact right twice a day we get it if we send something we don't and we don't get the answer every forty minutes we get it maybe in twelve hours because there are two slots during the day in which we can exchange email so that should have been the killer i mean i mean this is always hard to do and would have communication with the fly control center you did have you did have lot like the slots time slots when you when you had communication with them would apply controls and that happen we were in error.

because we're behind here or we weren't when we were on mars because we're behind mars interplanetary flight we have communication all the time will tours with these delay your for twenty minutes movement well we saw a picture right now on 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 you know themselves about which granted for space work well well well when you without help especially a work. together so you see what it's who was some addition or for. mars or face on the sort of his nursing home but we use. or for instruments which are using twitter which you need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing because of your own landing and we're using them was quite cool. for

new instruments. period 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 and boys will 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 where they right now you would have preferred if you had a couple of girls and i don't know if i so far as far as i know there were some there were some candidates yes along with me in the selection so i don't know the reason why do you exclude them however i think that it is quite possible for for a woman just have to be psychological about two to today's situation. do

you think it would have been more fun if you had if you had women aboard. we're like keeping it to like a boy to what i think is better people who are participating in the flights we are told to watch this is the more difficult without me in real life or israel's aerial spirit what do you see more difficult this sort of a sexual competition that quoting her work on because i had too many conflicts now on sexual health do so with the women or because they are all around where we have only a man and a bit of in and between and i know man. so so so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think that we proper selection it can be done well this is this is life complexity is life so so so is in real life. something that we have womanly you can go. from. santa.

and live their lives how you want if it works for you. suppose you go on a real mission on you or you have to send a guy his only real issue to five hundred days in outer space 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. i think you look for an all male crew let's start a little me where i feel i can. see your. real space why you need to use my oh grow 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. on the radio yeah yeah when i finally go dark and you hear so i want to try. what about the medics didn't the medics have to do all those experiments have to you out of there did they find any negative results of this experiment. during commission away my medical examination but. not find. very deep do very dangerous. changes. after finishing the experiment that we make more. concrete the medical examination but now we didn't notice also resurfaces collated. after so many days being looked up to get there are you still how did you see each of them in

their lives and to the other members of the you know problems that we have been working together and we were planning to go out in the evening. yeah i mean no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of here i mean for the future. because i mean i mean you know you proved that you could that you could be a perfect partner and closed a closed environment for so long so i mean every one of you not only you tube but the others are really perfect for being for being building real families in the future thank you thank you had all the luck in life thank you very much and better to remind you that my guests today were alexandra small yes he and diego who are the participants of the morris five hundred experiment and that's it for now for all of us if you're tired of your sound spotlight or have someone in mind you think actually until you next time you drop you know we'll be back with more for some

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