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the sex industry more down economy. context out of the anniversary of the first manned space flight our special report ventures back in time to walk out of people who made your ego guarin sledge and they're a voyage possible. so you go first you first know you think only five out of twenty are still alive. five participants of one of the most secret and ambitious missions of the soviet union leaders look i did it in moscow they dared to do all kinds of experiments testing the limits of human insurance. every one of them wanted to be the first. they were all ready to risk their lives. they were the first cosmonaut squad these men were chosen to prepare for the first ever human space flight every year the five remaining members of the group gathered

together on the first day of the first cosmonaut in his native city but now bears his name. alexei allman chuuk was an engineer and a helicopter pilot just eighteen months ago now he was a candidate to become a cosmonaut. frankly speaking i never thought i was suitable for becoming a cosmonaut but after a little training i saw they were human beings just like anybody else. if you stop spending it because. the simulators are constructed especially for the cosmonauts they have no electronics or digital technology involved cosmonauts set the speed with their own movement this is about the only way to keep muscles toned in a weight loss environment and your cosmonaut alexei exercises three times a week but for those from the first squad this kind of training would be considered a walk in the park. her mother had to go first because hunters are too many

physical exercise as but almost all because people did not know from one to stunt that she worked at all costs. here they are the men from the very first top secret soviet squad of cosmonauts there's video footage was for exclusive internal use only nobody was supposed to know anything about their mission not even their family or friends all twenty men were finally approved less than a year before one of them flew into orbit they were selected from thousands of the best flight schools across the country all of them were flying aces under the age of thirty five with impeccable profiles and in perfect health. yesterday filling us in so when out of thirty two years heath where it's a little sparse because of a gentle carries it was enough to completely rule you out of the running or with uppers as. eight months until liftoff time was running out the united states

was also preparing its own first human space flight a soviet presidium secretly ordered that a soviet man must be the first one to fly into space at any cost as the physical tests on the first cosmonaut squad increased so did the mental stress there was not a single minute of downtime for the men they endured tests and medical examinations followed by flights to the maximum heights possible and parachute training all on top of their daily exercise. this footage shows the first squad taking a rare day off in the moscow region but before it ended one of the twenty squad members had wrecked his chances of flying into a little bit. where we had just arrived when that hot air didn't look before he tried to leap into the water war though he ended up with a broken cervical vertebra and spent several months in hospital after that he was

discharged from duty. valentino valar moth was the first one to drop out from the cosmonaut squad for medical reasons. alexy common chilcot is undergoing centrifuge training they are judging if you can barely extreme forces of gravity during takeoff. during will jason because we're not must not only keep conscious but also be able to distinguish and remember letters and symbols after the ordeal the amount of force inside a centrifuge is measured in g an average person can sustain it no more than five g. in other words five times the force of gravity for today's cosmonauts the highest as they go is e.g. but the first squad was put through the absolute maximum of twelve g. . twelve g. was very scary they spun us in

a centrifuge captured from germany after the second world war it was the only one we have in addition it was an open centrifuge and it was cracked all over by mangy it was creaking and when it hit twelve g. i didn't care about the force anymore it was more concerned about whether would fly all over everything was a budget collapse. because of what it is a girl of. yuri gagarin was in superbe physical shape but even those tests were torture for him as the speed in the centrifuge grows it becomes harder to breathe the head feels heavy as if it is filled with lead. or that it would be carried out the research on how long a person can stand it they just put it out on me the direction of the force from hips up told us go a bit foggy for thirty seconds then at sixty for thirty seconds at seventy for thirty seconds. at aid she i began to blow it out and went

almost blind after just thirty seconds i had completely passed out. the cosmonauts underwent hundreds of thousands of tests on various machines as it turned out later the only thing they did was harm their health. degree number of doctors quickly appeared to carry out serious scientific experiments on human beings. but we were guinea pigs that's what they told us to tell the truth so there were. seven months until liftoff. six men were selected out of the remaining nineteen the rest were supposed to act as backup but they continued the preparations without any breaks one of the six could have been replaced at any time it was joked that all of them would fly into space in a couple of years and that more people would be needed because

a ships would be more tray seated. on a trolley car to shore was among the top six cosmonauts he was considered one of the strongest in the team and literally could easily enjoy twelve g.'s time and again but his medical results proved otherwise. than that in your blood vessels on his back bursts in that means if those on his back burst they could burst in the brain this can be deadly he was dismissed from the cosmonauts and continued working as a pilot's. because the chauffeur was replaced by a really good you know you wolf it was he who was bold enough to say what many were afraid to at a reception held by the commander of the air force. two from the new world gregory

knew you both stood up and said comrie chief marshal we have an impression that they do not prepare us for space flight but struthers obsessed what we can survive . to come on to a place it's a responsible person and said that they had selected stows people from three thousand pilots not for one single flights and that they would need them in the the future. he ordered a review of the training program to be less of a strain on their health. here you can see the needs of space exploration the youngest and the strongest man . theory occupation was top secret. and we asked people if they could recognize

any of them in the picture and they would not everything about them with classify it. this is a museum in the city of garrick devoted to the first space flight the famous cosmonauts home city here you can see the training simulators the first squad actually used this rotating chair tester yuri gagarin himself a unique exhibit finally appeared in the museum's collection in two thousand and eleven. you can see the low pressure chamber in which you record are in also underwent a test. and there was an accident in this very isolation chamber which. what happened in this chamber was kept secret for a long time and isolation chamber is a special airtight soundproof room in which low pressure conditions are created a cosmonaut would be left here all alone for ten to fifteen days only the

essentials were inside the room food water and a cooking stove communication was one way the cosmonaut was to report regularly on his condition to take readings of his organs with the help of sensors talking to the cosmonaut was forbidden lab assistants could only monitor him through a small window but on one fateful day when the cosmonaut urgently needed help none of the researchers was close by. well i'm i'm very i'm good dear valentyn bindery and co was going to take any g. and to do this one has to put on a special cap with sensors needed for these it is necessary to rub the skin with alcohol to ensure good contact with the sensors mr a broker or victim but i mean there was a time there was a cooking still beside him. and we knew it was going to cook himself a meal and

a piece of cotton wool dipped in alcohol fell down on to the heated stove there was a higher oxygen content inside the chamber than a normal sort of cotton wool caught fire instantly. when ozone jutes we were meant to be watching him through the window so if anything were to happen they were to open the door to me chytrid but they noticed it too late. when they managed to pull him out his whole body was burned only his perms were intact more than seventy five percent of his skin had been scorched. when he was taken out of the chamber he said steps he was the only one to blame rather than anybody else. valentino one dallying died in hospital several hours later he was not even among

the top six though and he was part of the backup team and was supposed to fill in for one of the favorites should anything happen among the other cosmonauts valentino was the youngest he was only twenty four. at the time even the death of a cause menard could not put a halt to the program. there were only three weeks before liftoff. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political act. of source material is for. sure it wasn't just we. we want to visit. something.

it's. three weeks until liftoff six men were still preparing for the flight we thought. we were unaware of who would be the first one until the very last moment for it to go and i read that in your ego guardian should be the one. you know others said that you want to should go to be amongst golf. and now marse rafi carter said that he had to be the first to fly because his first name was the seen as a planet here or. martha's. sister

but when the six men were taken to the hangar where the first stock spacecraft was being prepared chief rocket designer surrogate co-op asked who would like to get inside to see the. bigger our inquiry doubts the feed it. before getting in could go in took off his shoes and only then caught inside. kelly off used to say that was when guarin stood out from the crowd and got a lawyer though actually worth one week until liftoff the names of the first three candidates for the space flight were finally announced but senior lieutenant yuri gagarin. senior lieutenant your monthly gulf. and

captain grigori knew both. the goal of the three men was to survive in extreme conditions they were put through an emergency landing in had to endure prison cold temperatures as minus twenty degrees celsius in a forest they would have to wait for two days before western world arrived a basic survival trait was onboard an axe a stock of food and first aid supplies there was a good reason for testing the cosmonauts in this way. after the emergency landing of the voice heard two spacecraft a nine hundred sixty five cosmonaut carvel and only area and alexi of also had to wait for two days for rescue weekend after the flight they found it difficult to move from. the first night we slept in the space ship on a second day the rescuers foreigners and they built us a small wooden hut we one washed ourselves procure all the locals brought

a huge cauldron. we heated the snow and power and i were sitting in this conference like two devils. correct. after the incident they decided at the center that all cosmonauts should acquire the skills necessary for surviving in extreme conditions . four days until lift up. the land of the state commission recommends for the first person to fly into space should be senior lieutenant yuri gagarin and it did. get them killed off was named back a pilot log liguori know you both was in third place. of the three cosmonauts he saw neither glory nor honors know you bob was the only one never to perform a space flight his name was almost completely erased from the history of space exploration. no new. he was arrogant. i

remember how without having flown into space even haber's if he had done so. in april nineteenth sixty two you know your golf was expelled along with iran the nikkei over involved in the flood of from the first cosmonaut squad for breaching discipline and it's a deal they were sitting in a cafe drinking beer despite the fact that they were wearing uniform patrol officers came by and asked them to leave because it was against regulations grigori started saying something like do you know who i am do you have any idea of what i can do to you according the head of the patrol to not hesitate to detain will. the growth of this war good or together to vote on the matter of their expulsion or the gory valentyn in the van how to do in a proper manner and they also raised their hands but nearly so three days later they were no longer here all three of them were sent to different military units or

were in scripture is to know you both together with his wife or send the farthest to the far east. in this picture was taken when grigori was in the team i am not in this picture from a newspaper. you his face is blurred out. of when gregorio looked at it she told me this. i have been deleted. i am no more. three years later reboarding no new golf died he was hit by a train but the wife of cause we're not number three is certain that her husband committed suicide her main evidence is a note which says zenaida you have always been the best it is not easy to find

a woman like you i am sorry the night of believes that her husband could not accept the fact that he had been dismissed from the cosmonaut squad so he chose a different path of the hazards. with god's help today aleksei has is first training session in so-called open space journey ventilation are you comfortable the water is as close to the weightlessness of space as the cosmos can get on earth a spacecraft compartment is put into a pool this simulator is for cosmonauts to learn how to repair a spacecraft and conduct research outside the capsule. would work. alexei cannot move independently underwater his spacesuit weighs two hundred kilos in open space the cars minard can count only on himself the need for such training

became evident already after lexington leonore's first ever spacewalk. was march one thousand nine hundred sixty three. looking at these shots it is hard to believe that alexei early on all this struggling to save his life and all function in his spacesuit made it difficult to reenter the capsule staying outside it was a risk as there was only enough reserve air in the soup for thirty minutes we're using pressure was also dangerous as it could cause his blood to boil which could lead it to braless is even death to get back into the spaceship he had to take a gamble. you got to fall for your sewer but still don't understand how i did it but it cost me so much an issue that i felt that i was losing strength on my attempts to get inside with my feet first failed so i put my head inside the airlock ripped it with my hands and started moving chad first but i realized i

wouldn't be able to get inside like go a war hero. alexei han winchell has also faced some problems today the future cosmonaut not only has to forget about the discomfort inside the suit but also to quickly focus on his work to avoid mistakes while repairing the outer sheet and must learn to do the simplest operations instinctively to avoid problems in space here let's say you won't be able to stick it there. sorry for being slow. and. alexey harman choke successfully passes his exams in general space training he will be enrolled in two cosmonauts one number fifteen but nobody knows how long he may have to wait for his first flight according to the statistics provided by the russian training center little more than half of the cosmonauts finished the program eventually go into space.

yuri gagarin became the first and most famous kuzma not on the squad at that moment the only one. in fact all the other yet unknown cosmonauts of the star squad were also present there in the crowd welcoming the gerund they were wearing civilian clothes for security reasons. and because of they used to tell us that we would have to retire in a couple of years but it so happened that they flew only after eight years passed in fact i was the twenty first to fly even though the first scored consisted of twenty men but they were constantly replacing one cosmonaut with another for instance after garron came the first woman in space valentina to discover that.

when the moon program i was preparing for was cancelled out of it i was appointed at the space ship commander officer hughes eleven but eleven hours before the launch my crew was replaced willing to fly to the station and a whole crew of so use eleven died in an accident at the but then the second mission was cancelled the third mission was cancelled our ten years of continuous training for flight just said. but who knows the budget where you're. waiting for their hour of triumph was a serious psychological challenge many had to wait for years cosmonaut dimitri is akin was a lifelong backup cosmonaut they promised him that he would fly soon but after a regular medical examination he was told that he had an ulcer according to the decree on cosmonauts one cannot fly to space within our circle even though you can recover from it in spite of everything dimitri is akin has no regrets in the squad

he met his wife tatiana who worked as a nurse and became the light of his life they have their own personal history of flight and space exploration and. she came to work for the squad right before gar him was going to leave for the lord. both ala narrowboat that was where i saw mari chan crying out. that the this is the at the rally after gary's flight in one employee told me that there is a young man over there he's got dark glasses on so he thinks that no one can see who he's looking at it was you never took his eyes of you at all that. dimitri until she and i have been together for more than fifty years they have two sons and four grandchildren.

today anyone who dreams about the stars can fulfill his or her ambition. the father and mother of this family are both cosmonauts markets iraq was selected for duty first he immediately decided to become a cosmonaut when he found out that nowadays it is not necessary to be a military pilot all one needs is a higher technical education and good health. when i was going through the enrollment process and later wanted to take part two. i wasn't included in the same group as mock i had just given birth when her daughter was three years old a year not finally passed of the entrance exam today she is the only woman among all the active cosmonauts though mark entered the service before in yemen her first flight is scheduled for two thousand and fourteen today cosmonauts have to spend

about seven years training but they are no longer plagued with torturous exercises they learn only what they will really need for spaceflight and it is all thanks to the first team of cosmonauts we enjoyed of the impossible to pave the way to the stars for future generations.

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