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described as a threat to british security and its fate will be decided at high level talks in london in february and next we meet the would be space explorers who simulated a round trip mission to mars without ever leaving earth it's coming your way next in spotlight 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 the other planets in the twentieth century you had in space flight and later the apollo moon missions were the first steps and now it's time to go to

mars and though a real man who mission is only being played and yet there are men on earth who already tried it out thanks to russian technology how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth here asking alexander small yes and being 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 researchers say the project was a quiet for the future a real mission as it proved such a long space 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 well 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 parts 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 the the open they're located the closer look they give 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 going you know no no i must really stick parts of us when we simulate mars because we was 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 would take samples by real instruments. we live in the

pretty poor for a real. home where which can use on. i found. the reality stokoe was i was on the show because somewhere i was absolutely fascinated from a. world we cannot. see. or have on windows to have a. t.v. anchorman false 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 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 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 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 cosmonaut but about trying to cool would be cut off from the rest of the world for such a long time no doubt but disappearance could leave their confinement a ten year time all of them stayed on board to to stay 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 as i understand you in this light alexander but it didn't make much difference i mean being without zero gravity there's 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 and here is a but before we do it in sunday's. make simulation of. 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 three was it worth it yes indeed there are many experiments that we can expect that give us insight into what our crew will go true it's what our correspondent said what was mainly

psychological experiments like experimenting on yourselves like psychological but as well some some of the price 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 the last year or a deterioration in our immunological system they are there is very interesting. 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 that and the latest is that 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. 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 had that idea of quitting of getting out for me was very difficult. participate in this experiment. i never. go from never never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the isolation

how did you fight the stress like like 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 about biological and. look films we've grown members. sometimes we play a game most most often it was a contest. who who is better. if you want

really good he was going to get x. 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 situations 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 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 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 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 that did the russians speak russian to each other all these spoke english. not can speak english. not for not for a masculine speak very good. so when you spoke to each other i mean the russian elite group russian or english. must often always speak on english or russians speak between between themselves and between ourselves or russian this was one. of the most difficult in this situation it was because he cannot speak in on chain yes. i see well these are alexander small yes he had with me the participants of the morris five hundred it's proven spotlight we'll be back shortly

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market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. welcome back to spotlight on an album love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are out xander smiley 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 an eight and hours of sleep and hours of work and eight

hours at least so like in the army what do you think this was right this was the right thing to do or do you have any you would have shifted a little bit o. . it changed that's the average you know in our three dollars a day 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 in a mars mission so would you have to handle these very very well the special base in which there is less workload because they can actually be quite difficult well you were a crew of pretty you know people didn't go to sleep late hours and i remember when i was in the army the only thing i wanted it was to sleep in who are what we used to. have in 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. do you have enough of physical activity or you know you missed it here every day with. physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes. yes every day but each of us very different for four tired 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 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 food that astros really need these days that dads if we have to and you had enough of that food for five hundred days i mean on board it was more if you really knew you 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 would rather buy something in the local supermarket on her own holiday or her birthday we're not. sure we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. or for a special holiday as we did perhaps with the sarah. sarah she loves chocolates or things birthday we grew up in lots of. my sister listen you were 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 of what all of remember them you said about fresh vegetables but some of us. like. 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 afford it for so many i see so so so so it was for me 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 sparsely outraged over very fertile charcoal whether there should have been. nick ation well i have different information some people say the delays in for example if you wanted to to communicate. with your relatives with your friends via internet some people say 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 the delay grew and delay grew however that is true i would have killed that computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that get but actually the internet sowing to minutes by one say i am going on here once the ring to me and so you know you push the envelope and went from forty one in a way to deal with that. in fact email 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 which we can exchange email so that should have been the killer to me i mean this is always hard to do and would have communicating 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 know when to fly control center that happen we were or were in earth's orbit because we were behind the earth or we were when we were on mars because we're behind mars interplanetary flight we have communication all the time will tours with these declare your twenty minutes route 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. which granted for space work while when you went out and spent away a work on something to see if you know what it was some addition or for. mars

or face the sort of his arsenal but we use. or for us or mounts we are using. which need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing because saw him on landing and were using them was quite cool. for new instruments. prepared special special for the sick 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 are 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 oh 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 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 to what this is a more difficult without you know i mean in real life or israel's ariel space what do you avoid difficult this sort of a sexual competition that quoting her work on because i have been to many conflicts now on sexual health do so with the women or because of all reality where we have the women and the. and between and i know man oh

yes 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 if in real life has something to do with well money you can go out from. your. life and live how you want if it was for you well. 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 what would be your decision to send the whole male 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 why your need to use only 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 you know dark and you are here 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 different 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 i used to have to just see each of them in their lives and do the other members of the general 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 the you you proved that you could that you could be a perfect partner in a 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 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 in town to your sound spotlight we have someone in mind you think actually interview next time you drop your would be back with more for some time and some of what's going on in and house until then stay on target and take a. thank you. plz. lead the least explode areas. and untouched by money. surrounded by steep logs.

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