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countries being described as a threat to british security its fate is set to be decided high level talks in london in. the next we meet the would be space explorers who simulated a round trip mission to mars without ever leaving earth the guests in our spotlight studio next. again a 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 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 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 yes and to be left to spend a year in a hall and 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 approved such a long space flight 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 well talk yourself into being a part of a man 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 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 the the open the 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 wasn't for them so you 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. and we make real work we take samples by instruments. we live in

a pretty poor for real. world where which can use. i found. very artistic i was i was a very shocked because where i was absolutely as a native from. walt we can not. see. or have on windows to have a. t.v. antenna falls off 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 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 cool the crew's trip climaxed in the simulated landing on mars but the experiment wasn't so much about plane at the cosmonaut but about 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 attain a 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. 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. human. being in zero gravity you know during the flight you carried out a lot of experiments with a like five hundred twenty days you were in 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 we can expect that give us insight into what crew will go true

it's what the correspondent said that 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 lighting or at the to ration if in our immunological it 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 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 you did you or any other member of the crew have had that idea of quitting of getting it for me it 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 find the stress like video games or something or sport nor i have a. very i haven't done 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 a game of most most often it was a. mr thirteen. who who is better. if you want

really good he was going to get better but as far as i know how does drugs play team to team is it yeah you may want to money. 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 that 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. 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 yes because of that did the russian speaking 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 russians you could russian or english. most often always speak on english russians between between themselves and between ourselves or russian these postmarked years were the most difficult in this situation to us because he cannot speak in on chain yes. i see well these are alexander small yes he had to be there but this is

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welcome back to spotlight and i would love and just reminded of my guests on the show today on. alexander small yes he and diego would be in a participant of the morris five hundred experiment and 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 and 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 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 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

edition which there is less workload because the big can actually be quite difficult while you were a crew of pretty young people didn't go to sleep will be more than eight hours i remember when i was in the army the only thing i wanted it was this lake who are what we assume. that happened at 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 or you will be less tired but you do physicalists. do you have enough of physical i was able to beat you or you or you missed it 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 it and one kind of training course

a very easy course very. what about the food was the food depressing i mean eating the same kind of moves. 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 would have needed right now because i have been using 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 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 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 astros really need these days that is if we have to eat 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 tell us how 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 can not eat. and we should we can we can eat only. which we have a storage. or for a special holidays we get perhaps the. officer she loves chocolates or he's birthday we grab him lots of joe you know i said listen you were supposed to cultivate fresh the balls 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 was it really rewarding i mean i mean fresh vegetables and bone i cannot speak what all of crewmember and you said about fresh vegetables but some of us.

could vegetable very much for example. and it was. but. don't like so much room for us all for us and lastly enough for the for so when i see so so so so it was from food to grow the vegetables but you didn't really need them and yes i am. changed into chocolates and yes yes some very seriously that i would trade i had friends for chocolate though there should have been. 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 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 severely the distance grew and the delay grew and

grew where were they true i would have killed the computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that get actually. going to meaning to buy one say i am in no hurry once the ring to me and so you know you push the envelope and went for it and in the way you deal with that. in fact the mail arrives 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 email so that should have been the killer to me i mean this is so important to you and would have communicated you with the fly 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 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 interplanetary your flight we have communication all the time will tours with

business for twenty minutes woohoo well we saw a picture right. allan 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 you know themselves about which granted for space work well well well when you went out with open space when we're working in the series you know that it's who are some nation or for work in mars so our face on the surface is marcello but we use some of us are amounts. to using twitter which we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing because of your more landing and we're using them was quite cool. for new instruments. prepared 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 they 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 if i said are 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 do you 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 participate in flights that

we've told the what this is the more difficult without you know i mean in real life there is a real variable spirit is what makes it more difficult this sort of a sexual competition the quality of what. because i have been to many conflicts now on sexual conflicts with women or because of or around where we have only a man and a bit of in and between and i know man. so so so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think i would proper selection it can be done well this is this is life complexity is life so so so is in real life. something that we have a woman new york. from. santa. and live. how you are and 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 what 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 bone you know. i think you look through for an all male crew let's start a little bit here we are where i feel i. see your. real space way you need to use 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 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 you might some medical examination but. not find. very different very dangerous. changes. after finishing the experiment that we make more. concrete to medical examination but now we didn't notice also resurfaces concluded that. after so many days being looked up to get there i used to have to you see each other i mean there were xander the other members of the general problems that we have been working together and we 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 here i mean for the future. because i mean i mean you're you proves that you can that you can be a perfect partner in a closed a closed environment for so long so i mean every one of you not only you two 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 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 i should 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 it's. good players

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