he's out of the crisis and the truth behind why it's happening. now levy is taken care off london has named somalia a failed state of 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. hello again a welcome to spotlight. time when today we're talking about traveling to mars since the very beginning of 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 on this one 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've already tried it out thanks to russian took knowledge how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth here asking alexander small you have ski and be left to spend a year in a hall and it costs 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 technological challenge means the cherished dream is decades away. the world's main space agency is cannot 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 researches say the project was a quiet for the future a real mission as approved such a long space flight could be possible. welcome to the show thank you very much for. this well and the first question i wanted to ask you do true choir a lot of imagination i mean your imagination the crew's 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 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're 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 pretty realistic and we almost fell that we were on mars was it first there was a look at it from the ground you know no noise really stick parts of us and when we simulate mars of course we was 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. home where which can use on thing done. i found. that really stick out was i was on the show because somewhere i was absolutely fascinated from. what we cannot. see. or have on windows to have a. t.v. antenna tough enough 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 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 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 were also staged to see how the team would code 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 that participants couldn't leave their confinement a ten year 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 does remind you all the time that you are on mother earth. oh we cannot make zero gravity because this is absolutely impossible some of the time here is. before. during sunday's. make simulation of. some 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 so what what was the use of carrying out experiments when you actually were all know was it worth it

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

a couple of simulated emergencies there was one they cut off the lights and we got that into lately 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 have 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 reporter 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 an idea of quitting of getting out for me it was very difficult. but dissipate in this experiment. i never. go out from never

never how did you cope with this with this board with that isolation how did you find the stress media games or something. you know i. very much free times because i have many work. biology call 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. special literature about biological and other. films we've grown members. sometimes we play a game of most most often it was

a contest. who who is better. if you want really who was going to go but as far as i know cameras drugs play team to team yeah you might want to know what we had to rush against the rest of the world so who. fifty fiftieth's well it says so did you really have dia 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 that we were expecting. in normal space flight or in this kind of simulations you showed you could expect some wherry 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 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 years because of that did the russian speaking russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english. not for not from us can speak very good. so when you spoke to each other i mean the russian russian or english. must often always speak on english or what russians speak between between themselves and between ourselves or one of the russian this person or. the most difficult in this situation it was because he cannot speak in on chinese with nobody i see well these are alexander small yes he

had diego would be the participants of the mars five hundred experiment spotlight we'll be back shortly after a break so stay with us we'll continue in the western world. here 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 russia's nals discover the arctic

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a trip to mars was simulated in a cab so in here in russia. your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight hours of sleep eight hours of work and eight hours of leisure. in the army what do you think this was right this was the right thing to do or you have you would have shifted a little bit of change or bad 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 you know 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 go to sleep would be more than eight hours i remember when i was in the army the only think i wanted it was to sleep with who or what we're supposed to happen 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 physical or. do you have enough of physical oh is it going to be to you or are you sorry you missed it every day with . physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes of this yes every day but. very different for a four tire it don't 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 the food was actually quite good perhaps i would have

needed 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 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 food that we have here except they have to re more compact and less heavy so is this the kind of the food that astronauts really need these days that would they have to and you had enough of that food for five hundred days i mean on board it was more than off you really really so so so well is it would you have 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 eat. and we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. time for for

a special holiday as we get perhaps the. loss of sarah she loves chocolates or she's birthday we grow lots of. you was supposed to cultivate fresh the balls that vegetables on board as a as a supplement to the two 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 remember them use about fresh vegetables but some of us. like. vegetable very much for example crop. a little bit less. but. don't

like to much room for us so far for us and last year nuff for. four so when i see you so so so so it was firm to grow the vegetables but you didn't really them yes. so you change them to chocolates and. so it's a very sparsely outrage over a variety of charcoal so there should have been. 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. legs were they true i would have killed that computer i mean what if the internet was like forty minutes like that it actually. going to minutes by one say wow i mean her once said to me and so you know you push the envelope. we went from forty nine in

a way to deal with that. in fact the man who arrived twice a day we didn't get in 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 in me i mean this was warranted and would have communicated with the flight control center you did have he did have a lot like the slots time slots when you when you had communication with them with a fly control center that happened we were in earth's orbit because we were behind the earth 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 movement 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 spaceship goes in charleston which can tell for space

work while when you went out and spent we'll work on something interesting to see if it is somewhat nation or for. mars source face on the sort of his mercy but we use. or for us or mounts. 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 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 where well 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 years of i don't know so far so far as far as i know there were some there were some candidates along with me in this election 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 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 there like a boy to what i think has been you people who are participating in the flights that we've talked to what this is a more difficult without me in real life rails on your spirit what do you see more difficult this sort of a sexual competition that quoting her work. because. too

many conflicts now on sexual can't do so with the women or because they're already on the way and we have the women and the. and between homo men yes so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think proper selection it can be done well this is this is life complex it is life so so so is in real life has something to do with well money you can go from. santa. and live. on if it was for you well. suppose you go on a real mission on you all you have to go is on the real issue five hundred degrees in outer space would be your decision to send the whole meal crew or to mix sixes.

i think it would be interesting to make a meal or experiment with sexists to see how it works out i think it could be a good idea if there is a good bone and 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 your 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 enough. larry oh yeah yeah definitely go dark and you are here so i want to try and tell. 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 commission aware medical examination but. not find. very different do very dangerous. changes. and after finishing the experiment we make more. concrete the medical examination but now we didn't notice also reserve this is calculated. after so many days being looked up to get there i used to add because you see children in their lives and the other members of the general problem we have been working together and were planning to go out in the evening. yeah i mean it's no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of hearing for the future. because i mean i mean yeah you proved that you can that you can be a perfect partner in any closed

a closed environment for so long so i mean every one of you not only you tube and the others are really perfect for being for being building real families in the future thank you thank you and 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 were 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 if you think actually interview next time just drop your movie back to more for some time and some of what's going on in and outside until then save our teeth and take a. thank you.

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