radio gone gargi dot com. thank you for joining us at six thirty here in moscow i'm karen tara with a quick recap of your headlines dozens are killed in damascus and the first suicide bombing since the syrian uprising began in march this comes as arab league observers arrive in the country in an effort to work out a peaceful solution to the conflict. just days after the pullout of u.s. troops the iraqi government plunges deeper into political crisis following a bombing wave that claimed more than seventy lives prime minister nouri al maliki

has called for his sunni. groups law to be sacked. and big brother is coming and he could be in your british taxi human rights activists fight a surge in surveillance cameras which are known to be installed in every taxi in the city of oxford recording not just video but audio as well authorities insist about the risk of intrusion is acceptable compared to the public safety benefits. those are your headlines for now coming up r.t. speaks to the participants of a unique russian space experiment they spent a year and a half in a capsule to simulate a flight to mars spotlight is next. again though welcome to spotlight. time today we're talking about

traveling to mars since the very beginning of space exploration era humans never stop dreaming of other planets in the twentieth century you had in space flight and later the apollo missions were the first steps and now it's time to go to mars and though a real man who mission is being planned yet there are men on earth who've already tried it out thanks to russians with knowledge how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth here asking alexander small yes and the last to spend a year in a hall and that 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. 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 russian mars five hundred project. it featured six international space much sunshine fresh air and loved ones for more than five hundred days in a cramped space ship like capsule researchers say the project was a quiet for the future a real mission as approved such a long spaceflight could be possible. 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 mars 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 the 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're the open they're 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 realistic and we almost fell that we were on mars wasn't looked at from going you know no no i think most realistic parts of us when we simulate mars of course we use 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 instruments. we live in the pretty poor for real. room where which can use on. i found. the reality stick i was very shocked because where i was absolutely as a native from a. world we cannot. see. or have on windows to have a. t.v. anchorman a tough life and i said 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 chosen 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 for the weightlessness of real space they had to survive the monotony of more than five hundred 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 stage to see how the team would cool the crew's 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 atlanta time all

of them stayed on board two today 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 is our understanding this light alexander but it didn't make much difference i mean being without zero gravity. they remind you all the time that you are on mother earth. we cannot make zero gravity because this is absolutely impossible for such a long time he was. before. during sunday's. make simulation of. conditions. you mung. bean in zero gravity and you know during the flight you carried out

a lot of experiments like five hundred twenty days you were in so what what was the use of carrying out experiments when you actually were all no thing 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 like our 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 to march during the during the mission because we are in a very confined space so we can expect some deterioration of or state of health and this is something the scientists are very interesting interested in now asking or at the to ration if in our immunological it system they are there is very interesting for

a scientist the idea of this whole flight is for his own distant was to get you into an unpredicted situation some sort of a next of the something did happen we had a couple of. simulated emergencies there was one big cut off the lights and that until a lot 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. had to go to certain procedures that we had to do to save the food from the free 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 lighting reporters just reminded us that you could leave the capsule at any time during those five hundred days or any one of the do you or any other member of the crew.

have an idea of quitting of getting out for me it was very difficult. participate in this experiment. i never forgot about go out for a never never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the isolation how did you know if i distrust video games or something or sport 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. biological and other.

films we've grown members. sometimes we play a game most most often it was a counter strike. thirteen. who is better. if you want really good he was going to go but as far as i know cameras drugs played team to team yeah you may want to. we have russia against the rest of the world so who are . fifty fifty well that says so did you really have dear 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. we were expecting. in normal space glide or in this kind of simulations you showed you could expect some very bad situations that can

happen and they never happen 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 just because of that did the russians speak russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english or not or not from a skill speak very good. so when you spoke to each other i mean the russian russian or english. most often always speak on english or russians speak between between themselves and the selves or one of the russian this

person on. the phone was difficult in this situation it was because he cannot speak in on chain yes. i see well these are alexander small yes he had to be the participants of the morris five hundred it's pretty quiet life we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue in less than human. wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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paintings on display for thousands of years. easton science beyond the time. come on see. welcome back to the spotlight and i would love and just to remind you that my guests on the show today are alexander small yes he and diego would have been a participant 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 an up your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight nine eight hours of sleep and hours of work and eight hours of leave so like in the army what do you think this was right this is the right thing to do or do you have any you would have shifted a little bit o. if change that's the avarice 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 had 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 they 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 think i wanted it was this lake it works well when you'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 older you will be less tired but you do physical aside. do you have enough of physical o's ability or are you sure you missed it every day with. physical training of your income from. the minutes until sixty minutes. yes every day but each of us very different. for tired it hadn't one kind of training course a very easy of course very. 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 will never again so well the food was actually quite good perhaps i wouldn't need right now because i have been giving it for so 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 past 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 need 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 serve a table without food from the station or you would rather buy something in the local supermarket on her own holiday or. not. we should we can we can only. we should we have a storage. or for

a special holidays we get perhaps the. officer she loves chocolates or things birthday we grab from lots of you know i said listen you were supposed to cultivate fresh that apples 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 we're. is it really rewarding i mean i mean fresh vegetables and bone i cannot speak of what all of crewmember and you 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 all for us unless you laugh for.

four so when i see you so so so so it was from food to grow the vegetables but you didn't really need them yes. so this is so you change them to chocolates and. so it's a very sparsely that outrage over very fertile chocolate so there shouldn't be. communication well i have different information some people say the delay so for example if you wanted to to communicate. with your relatives with your friends the internet some people say it was twenty minutes delay some people say it was forty minutes delayed or did it depend on the distance i mean for the most severely the distance grew and the delay grew and delayed however that is true i would have killed that computer i mean what if the internet was like forty minutes like that get well actually. going to mean it's by one say oh i mean aren't the routing and so you know you push the envelope and went from forty one in

a way to deal with that. in fact e-mail right twice a day we didn't get it but if we send something we did 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 emails so there should have been the killer i mean i mean this was warranted and would have communicated with the flight control center you did have you didn't have a lot like the slots time slots when you you when. we had communication with them no we didn't fly control center does that happen we were were in earth's orbit because we're behind here or we were when we were on mars because we're behind mars in 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 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 you know themselves. which granted for

space work well well well when you without help especially a work when something is seriously what is this someone nation or for work in mars or face on the sort of his arsenal but we use. or for the instruments we are using which we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing and you saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. period special special forty six but i'm ok now one of the one of the main subjects that was discussed when you were going to five hundred years was women i going 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 were they right or you would have preferred if you had a couple of girls and i don't know said i so far as far as i know there were some there were some candidates yes along with me in this election 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 a psychological about to two. situation. do you think it would have been more fun if you had if you had women aboard were like keeping it to like a boy to what i think has been you people who are participating in the flights that we've told the what this is the more difficult without you know i mean 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 already on the way and we have the man and the 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 complex it is life so so so it is in real life has something to do with a woman a european a goal from. santa. and if you leave your and if it was for you will. suppose you go on a real mission 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 a 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 bones you know. i think you look for an all male crew let's start a little bit we are well i feel i. see your. real space flight you 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. on the radio yeah yeah when i finally go you know doc and you are here so i want to try. all 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 during commission that we might some medical examination but. not find. very deep doodoo very dangerous. changes. after finishing the experiment that we make more. concrete the medical examination but now we didn't notice also reese this is calculated. after so many days being looked up to get there are you still how did you see each other i mean there was the other members of the general problem we have been working together and we were planning to go out in the evening and yeah i mean it's no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of here for the future. because i mean i mean you know you proved that you can that you can be a perfect partner in any close to close environment for so long so i mean every one

of you not only you tube the others are really perfect for being for being building real families in the future thank you have thank you had all the luck in life thank you very much and thank you to remind you that my guests today were alexander 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 we have someone who might if you think actually interview next time your job would be back with more for a set of comments on what's going on in and house until then stay on target and take a. thank you. play . the burglar.

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