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. and now levy is taken care off london has named somalia a failed state and britain secret services have called it the new training ground for terrorists it's leading to speculation and invasion is the next step. well up next we talk to the would be space explorers who simulated a one hundred million kilometer round trip to the red planet spotlight is now stay with us. again though welcome to spotlight. time they were 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 only being planned yet there are men on earth who have already tried it out thanks to russian took knowledge how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth we're asking alexander small you have ski and 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. 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. 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 researches say the project was a quiet for the future a real mission as approved such a long space could be possible. in san diego welcome to the show thank you very much for me. this well and the first question i wanted to ask you do true choir a lot of imagination i mean your imagination the cruise imagination to really. talk yourself into being a part of a mars expedition did you really was it really hard to imagine yourself in space or were the simulation was so authentic that that it didn't require much imagination. 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 bell 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 stand through to another look and we can hear it when the the open 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 realistic and we almost fell that we were on mars was it first there was a look at it from the way i mean no 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. we make more or take

samples by instrumentals. oil lever and a half per pack a pull for l. r o where which can us on. i found. the reality stick i was i was on the show because so we was absolutely isn't it that from a. world we cannot. see. we have on windows to have a. t.v. internet cell phones 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 live and they see me there are. thousands of volunteers wanting to take part but don't miss six we chosen for the experiment the simulation of a flight to mars they were locked inside the mosque spacecraft for seventeen months

and although they didn't have to experience the take well for 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 go outside world which imitated the communication lag between mars and the emergency situations were staged to see how the team would cool the crew strip climaxed in the simulated landing on mars but the experiment wasn't so much about plane it cosmonaut deval 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 to ten year time all of them stayed on board to do things in durance scientists are now provided with some for. reisman psychological and medical information concerning the facts

of long term isolation on humans. there was no zero gravity as i understand you in this fight alexander but it didn't make much difference i mean being without zero gravity did 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 has a but before. duty and some days. make simulation for. conditions. you mung. bean 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 all no 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 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 off or state of health and this is something that the scientists are very interesting and interested in now lasting or added to rationing in our immunological system they are very very interested in. the idea of this whole flight is frozen and this turn was to get you into unpredicted situation some sort of a next to the something did that happen we had

a couple of simulated emergencies there was one big cut off the lights and we got into latency 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 fried. 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 was very difficult. participate in this experiment. never. go from never

never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the isolation how did you find the stress like video games or something or sport nor i. very much for the 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. films we've grown members. sometimes we play a game of most most often it was

a. mr. who who is better. but he wasn't really good he was going to go but as far as i know cameras drugs played team to team does it yeah you may want to we had to rush against the rest of the world so who was. fifty fifty well it says so did you really have diego did you really have problems with interaction with each other or not really. of course you can expect some natural situations with your coworkers were maybe you thinking that the from way. we were expecting. in normal space flight or in this kind of simulations you show 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 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 well but 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 the russian speak russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english. not for north from moscow and 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 russians speak between between themselves and the cells or 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 mars five hundred experience spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue in less than human. or in bygone days dogsleds were vital to get around. but today they're more leisure than life line. one drives people to quit their modern lives and settle in remote woods. one finds them up to survive in the freezing cold. a new beginning in brushes mills discover the arctic

circle on r.t.e. . welcome to the future new year's wishes on technology updates next generation playthings made from super strong cultural lightly building materials good health with the help of nuclear isotopes a cleaner planet thanks to the revolutionary ways to get rid of our growing landfills and a long list of russian innovators. pleased to. welcome back to the spotlight on an album love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are out xander smile yes he and diego would have been a participant of the morris five hundred experiment an experiment in which

a trip to mars was simulated in a cap so in here in russia. diego your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight nine eight and hours of sleep eight hours a work and eight hours at least. like in the army what do you think this. right this is the right thing to do or you have you would have shifted a little bit or it changed that's the average you know in hours and hours and hours 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 now 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 can actually be quite difficult well you were a crew of pretty young people didn't go to sleep would be more than eight hours i remember when i was in the army the only thing i wanted it was to sleep with who or what when you're sober that happened to the 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 physically. you. do you have enough of physical i was able to meet you or you know you missed it every day with. physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes of us every day but each of us very different for four tired it and one kind of training course a very easy thing 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 or never again so well the food was actually quite good perhaps i would

have needed right now because i have been saving for so goes away it wasn't what we see in movies like toothpaste you know that stuff 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 they are very similar to the the food. we have here except they have to re more compact and less heavy so is this because of the food astros really these days that dogs 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 knew you so so so so would you for example. your birthday this year and sort of a table without food from the station or you would rather buy something in the local supermarket on her own holiday or they would not eat. we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. or for

a special holidays we get perhaps the. officers who love chocolates or things birthday we grow up in lots of. nicer you was supposed to cultivate fresh vegetables vegetables on board as a as a supplement to the to to to to your 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 crewmember me said about fresh vegetables but some of us. could vegetable very much for example crop. a little bit less. but we. don't

like to much room for us so for for us unless you nuff affords for sweet i see 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 yes yes some very personally. that outrage i've heard for two chocolate now that there should have been listen 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 via internet some people say it was twenty minutes delay some people say it was forty minutes delay or did it depend on the distance i mean from the host simulated these things grow 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 internet and so going to mean it's by one say i mean higher on say the routing and so you know you push. for it and in

a way to deal with that and. in fact e-mail 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 a maybe in twelve hours because there are two slots during the day in which we can exchange e-mails so that should have been the killer i mean i mean this is going to you and i would have communicated with the flight control center you did have you did have a lot like the slots time slots when you when you had communication with them with a fly control center does that happen we were or 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 the communication all the time will tours with these delay your twenty minutes moving well we saw a picture right now in this screen of sort of a simulated space walk was this is space walk and morse or was it like

a route around the space ship. which granted for space work while when you went out and spent away or work on something interesting to see what. some additional or for work in mars or face on the sort of here's our sort of but we. or for the instruments we are using which we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing and saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. prepared in a special special for his experiment ok now. one of the one of the main subjects that was discussed when you were going there for five hundred years was women are they going to be any women and boys will actually is for as 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 so far 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 be excluded them are however i think that it is quite possible for for a woman just have to be a psychological about two to today's 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 is better people who are participating in the flights that we've talked a lot this is a 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 wanting or what. because i have

too many conflicts now on sexual health do so with the women or because i'm already on the way and we have them all in one and the bit of in and between and i know man oh yes so so so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think we've properly. selection it can be done well this is this is life complexity is life so so so is in real life. conflict with a woman who you can go. from. santa. and live their lives how you want if it was for you were. suppose you go on a real mission on you or you have to send the guys on a real mission 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 sexist to see how it got works out i think it could be a good idea if there is a good bones and you know. i think you look for an all male crew let's start a little me where i feel i. see your. real space your need to use my own 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 no 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 the way 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 that collated. after so many days being looked up to get there are you still had because you see each other i mean there were xander the other members of the general problem 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 in for the future. because i really i mean you know here 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 better 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 in town of your sound spotlight we have someone in mind you think actually until you next time you drop your i would be back with more for some time and some of what's going on in and house. until then stay on partying and play. thank you. live.

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