to try and broker a peace deal. fueled by apparent success in libya david cameron reveals plans for potential intervention in somalia next year will reach african countries been described as a threat to british security and its fate will be decided at high level talks in london in february. 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. hello again a welcome to spotlight. time al here in our brand today 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 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 technology how does it feel to fly a hundred million miles back and forth here 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 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 spaceflight could be possible. to 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 crew's imagination to really. talk yourself into being a part of a mars expedition did you really want it really hard to imagine yourself in space or were this simulation was so authentic that that it didn't require much imagination. but 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 the 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 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 going you know no no i must really stick parts of us when we simulate mars of course so 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 don't live in the property pool for real. home where which can use on. i found. the reality stick out was that i was on the show because so where was absolutely isn't it that from. all we cannot. see. we 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 and reported by spotlights yellin there to me 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 code 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 that participants could leave their confinement to ten a 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 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 and sometimes he has a but before you do it in sunday's. make simulation of. some conditions. you mung. bean in zero gravity you know during the flight you carried out a lot of experiments with a 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 that 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 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 thing or a deterioration in our immunological system they are there is very interesting important is 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 simulated emergencies there was one they cut off the lights and we got into lately 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 an idea of quitting of getting out for me it was very difficult. but dissipate in this experiment. i never. go from never

never how did you cope with this with this board with that isolation how did you find the stress media games is 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 read special literature about biological and other. films we've grown members. sometimes we play the game

most most often it was a counter strike. who who is better. if you want really who was going to get it as far as i know cameras drugs team to team yeah you might want to we had to rush against the rest of the world so who. 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 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 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 from us can 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 between myself and this person one. of the most difficult in this situation is worse because he cannot speak in on

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. wealthy british style. that's not on the. markets finance scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cons are for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report on our. welcome back to the spotlight love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are out there yes he and diego would be 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. your daily routine your daily schedule was eight eight hours of sleep eight hours of work eight hours of 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 of change 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 had less workload that is something you can expect you know in a mars mission so would you have to handle these very very well but they seem especially based in which there is 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 thing i wanted it was the sleep it who or what we used 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 or you will be less tired but you do physical or so. do you have enough of physical oh is it going to be to you or are you sure 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 tired parent 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 that mean every day what would you eat this food again today or never again so 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 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 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 well is it would you have 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 her birthday we can not eat. and we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. or for

a special holiday as we get perhaps the. loss of sarah she loves chocolates or things 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 all 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 need them yes. so change them to chocolates and. some very sparsely outrage over a variety of charcoal though 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 mins delay or did it depend on the distance i mean from those simulated distance grew and the delay grew and grew however that is true i would have killed the computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that it actually. sewing two minutes by one say i am in her run the room to me and you push the envelope. it went from forty nine in

a way to deal with that. in fact the man arrived twice a day we didn't get it if we sense 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 in which we can exchange email so that should have been the killer in me i mean this has always wanted to and would have communicated with the flight control center he did have he did have a lot like slots time slots when you when you had communication with them with a fly control center that happen 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 interplanetary flight we have the communication all the time will towards with this 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. which granted the first place

work while when you went out and spent we'll work on something to see if you know that. some addition or for. mars source face and the sort of here's marcello but we use. or for. using twitter we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing with the saw get more 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 are 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 years of i don't know said i 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 the excluded them are however i think that it is quite possible for for a woman just have to be a psychological two to today's situation. do you think it would have been more fun if you had if you had women aboard were like peeping into like a boy into what i think has been you people who participate in the flights that we've told to watch this is a more difficult with. me in real life. 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 all women and the. and between ho men yes so so so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think proper selection it can be done well this is this is life complexity is life so so so is real life has something to do with a woman the you can go from. santa. and live their lives how you want if it was for you well. suppose you go on a real mission on you all you have to go is on a real mission to five hundred days in 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 sex as to see how it works out i think it could be

a good idea if there is a good balance and you know. i think you look for an all male crew let's start a little bit well i feel. your. real space wyatt 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. larry oh yeah yeah i would have to actually go dark and you hear so i want to try to tell. all about the medics didn't the medics have to do all those experiments of t.f.t. you out of there did they find any negative results of this experiment.

during commission where a medical examination but. not find. very deep do a very dangerous. change just. after finishing the experiment that we make more. concrete to medical examination but now we didn't notice also reason 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 on were planning to go out in the evening and yeah i mean no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of hearing for the future. because i mean i mean if you're here you proved that you can that you can be a perfect partner in any closed 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 have thank you and 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 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 we have some of them on if you think actually interview next time your job would be back with more for some time and some of what's going on in and outside until then save our team and take a look. thank you. among

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