lation the arab league deploys observers to try and mediate a peace deal. and fuel buyers apparent successes in libya david cameron has revealed plans now for potential intervention in somalia extra year to oil rich african countries being described as a threat to british security its fate is said to be decided at the high level talks in london and fed. up 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. hello 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 the other planets and 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 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 flight could be possible. welcome to the show thank you very much from. 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 well it's really hard to imagine yourself in space or were this 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 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 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 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 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 where i was absolutely as i write it from. walt we cannot. see. or have a 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 land there jimmy 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 mosque 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 cope the crew strip climaxed in the simulated landing on mars but the experiment wasn't so much about plane and the 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 attain a time all of them stayed on board to do that 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 some of the time here is a but before we 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 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 what the correspondent said that what was mainly psychological experiments like experimenting on yourselves like psychological but as well some some of the feis of physiological 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 system they are there is very interesting. 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 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 waxing 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 out from never never how did you cope with this with this boy do with the 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 and if i have. free time so i read a special literature about biological and. look films we've grown members. of the sometimes we play the game

most most often it was a counter strike. who who is better. if you want rid of you who is going to go. as far as i know cameras drugs play team to team yeah you might want to we had to rush against the rest of the world so who. fifty fiftieth's is well it says so did you really have the a 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. 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 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 russians speak between themselves that it was self russian this person on. the phone was difficult in this situation it was because he cannot speak in on

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welcome back to the spotlight love and just a reminder that my guests on the show today are out there yes he and diego will 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. during. 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 that's the average you know in our side our side ours 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 basic special base in which there's less workload because they can actually be quite difficult while 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 in 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 so that you have a scenario. does you have enough of physical oh is it going to be to you or are you sure you missed it every day with a physical training of your income from thirty minutes until sixty minutes of

us every day but. very different for four tired it went 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 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. 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 yeah

yeah really so so so that it would you for example celebrate 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. 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 guy out there 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. could vegetable very much for example. a little bit less. but we. don't like to much room for us so for for us unless you nuff afford. so when i see you so so so so it was firm for you to grow the vegetables but you didn't really need them yes. so you change them to chocolates and. some very sparsely outrage over it for chocolate so there shouldn't be. 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 and the delay grew and delayed however that is true i would have killed the computer anyway if the internet was like forty minutes like that get but actually. going to minutes by one say i am in a hurry ron said to me and you push the envelope. for anyone in a way to know that. in fact the man arrived twice a day we didn't 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 in me i mean this was warranted and what about 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 that happened where were you were in earth 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 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 spaceship goes into us about which granted the first space work while when you went out and spent away a workout in something interesting to see what it's was some addition or for. mars source face on the surface marcello but we use. or for yes or mounts we are using. we need to use and. they were designed for the moon landing of the soviet more landing and we're 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 would be any women and boys will actually is first i know women were excluded from taking part in the group 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 i don't know so far so far as far as i know there were some there were some candidates 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 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 participate in the flights we've talked a lot this is a more difficult with. me in real life rails are your spirits what do you see more difficult this sort of out sexual competition that quoting her work. because. too many conflicts now on sexual can't do so with the women or because they're all around where we have the women and the. and between homo man. yes so it certainly adds some complexity to the situation but i think proper selection it can be done well this is this is where i complexity is life so so so is real life has something to do with money you can go. from. santa. 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 the real issue to five hundred degrees in outer space would be your decision to send a whole meal crew or to mix sexes. i think it would be interesting to make a more experiment with mixed sexes to see how it works out i think it could be a good idea if there is a good balance. 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 why 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 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 aware medical examination but. not find. very different 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 and yeah i mean no problem so you know i think this experiment made ideal husbands out of here mean for the future. because i mean i mean you know 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 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 were 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 or have someone who might 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 stay on target and take a look. thank you.

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