everything you thought. was a big issue. this is our team here you had the british prime minister turn. into a weapons sales pitch. with nations in the pacific it's a move that many see as an attempt to undermine china's growing clout but this comes on the heels of the united states itself building up its own military presence in the breach of. peace envoy kofi annan says the syrian government has assured him it will respect the u.n. brokered cease fire with the deadline now less than twenty four hours away that's

despite some western countries. in a powerful earthquake and subsequent. tsunami warnings in indonesia and several other countries in the indian ocean there were no immediate reports of deaths or damage following the eight point six magnitude quake. if you can please do stay with us for an r.c. just ahead just in front of the first manned space flight our special report. a look at the people who made your. voyage. but so who will 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 knew about 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 cosmonauts one of 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 birthday of the first cosmonaut in his native city but now bears his name. alexei allman chuck 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. to stop

sending it to. these simulators are constructed especially for the cosmonauts they have no electronics or digital technology involved cosmonauts said the speed with their own movement this is about the only way to keep muscles toned in a weight loss environment future 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. here mother the first squad hunters are to many physical exercises but the most because people did not know from where to start a casual. care they are the men from the very. first top secret soviet squad of cosmonauts this 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. if you could fill in as in so in out of thirty two years heath or had some littles particles or gentle carries that 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 the soviet presidium secretly ordered the 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 orbit. at your we had just arrived when that hot head 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 judy. valentino vita mom off was the first one to drop out from the cosmonaut squad for medical reasons. alexi home in chocolate is undergoing centrifuge training they are checking if you can bear the extreme forces of gravity during takeoff. during will change 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 aging 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 had in addition it was an open centrifuge and it was cracked all over by nine g. it was creaking and when it hit twelve g. i didn't care about the force anymore it was more concerned about whether it would fly off if everything was about to collapse and there's a report that is going to. yuri gagarin was insuperable physical shape but even those tests were torture for him as the speed in the centrifuge rolls it becomes harder to breach the head feels heavy as if it is filled with lead. or that if they

carried out a research on how long a person can stand they just did it out on me yet the direction of the force from ships and pelvis go up at foggy for thirty seconds then at sixty for thirty seconds at seventy for thirty seconds. at age she i began to blackout 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. in great number of doctors we quit 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 one team and 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 years and that more people would be needed because space ships would be more tray seated. and actually come to shore was among the top six cosmonauts he was considered one of the strongest in the team and not only could easily enjoy a twelve g.'s time and again got his medical results proved otherwise. than as any blood vessels on his back burst 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 to show it was replaced by a really good you know you want 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. and from the new grigori new you both stood up and said comrie chief marshal we have an impression that they do not prepare us for space flight but still rather test what we can survive. to come on to a place it's a responsible person and said that they had selected stroh's people from three thousand pilots not for one single flight and that they would need them in the future these. he ordered a review of the training program to be less of

a strain on their health. or. here you can see the meter 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 could not eat everything about them with classify it. this is a museum in the city of good care and devoted to the first spaceflight the famous cosmonauts home city here you can see the training simulators the first squad actually used this rotating chair test and 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 regarding also underwent

a test. and there was an accident in this very isolation chamber which. is what happened in this chamber it was kept secret for a long time an 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 a lab assistant could only monitor him through a small window but on one fateful day when the cosmonaut urgently needed help none of the researchers was closed. well i'm i'm very i'm good as new valance in wonder am was going to take any g.

and to do this one has to put in a special account of what sensors and put it there for this it is necessary to rub the skin with alcohol drunk sure good contact with the sensors stimulus or group. but the manuals at the time there was a cooking still beside him. and i was going to cook himself a meal and a piece of cotton wool dipped in alcohol fell down on to the heated stove and there was a higher oxygen content inside the chamber than a normal sort of cotton wool caught fire instantly the room. those on jews were meant to be watching him through the window so if anything were to happen they were to open the door to meet children and it's risky but they noticed it was too late. for them and. 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 would have 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 valiant died in hospital several hours later he was not even among the top six balanchine 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 the cause menard could not put a halt to the program. there were only three weeks before liftoff. wealthy british style.

markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in the kinds of reports on r t. three weeks until liftoff six men who were still preparing for the flight we thought. we were unaware of who would be the first one until the very last moment. but call i know i agreed yuri gagarin should be the one.

to others said that the you wonder should go to get amongst golf. and then marse rafique author said that you had to be the first to fly much because his first name was the same name as a planet. but no more. martha. sisko complained when the six men were taken to the hangar where the first took spacecraft was being prepared chief rock at the side say gate color asked who would like to get inside to see the. greater good garden cried out to feed it before getting in the garden took off his shoes and only then got inside. coverly off used to say that was when guarin stood out from the crowd and got along. with one week until

that doth the names of the first three candidates for the space flight were finally announced but senior would turn and fury go there in. a senior lieutenant give monthly golf. then a captain gregorio new book. the goal of the three men was to survive in extreme conditions they were put through an emergency landing and had to endure freezing cold temperatures as minus twenty degrees celsius in a forest they would have to wait for two days before rescue arrived a basic survival kit was on board an axe a stock of food and first aid supplies there was a good reason for trusting the cosmonauts and in this way. after the emergency landing of of was hard to space craft a nine hundred sixty five cosmonauts carvel of the year you and alexey leonov also had to wait for two days for rescue weekend after the flight they found it difficult to move. out of where for the first night we slept in this place should

you know come on a second day the rescuers foreigners and they built us a small wooden hut we one washed ourselves crack york with locals brought a huge cauldron. we heated the snow and power and i were sitting in this condron 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 . for days until lift off. the land of the state commission recommends that the first person to fly into space should be senior lieutenant yuri gagarin and it did. you know i'm kind of was named back a pilot blog liguori know your wife was in third place of the three cosmonauts he

saw neither glory nor honors know your wife was the only one never to perform a space flight his name was almost completely erased from the history of space exploration. he was our agent. i remember how without having flown into space eva hey versus if he had done so. in april nine hundred sixty two was expelled along with iran i think a over involved in the philosophy of from the first cosmonauts wired for breaching discipline and insidious 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 and grigori started saying something like do you know who i am do you have any idea of what i can do to you of course the head of the patrol did not hesitate to detain them. how growth up into this war gathered together to vote on the matter

of their expulsion or the gory valentyn and the van acted in a proper manner and they also raised their hands but nearly so three years later they were no longer there all three of them were sent to different military units or inscriptions though although you both together with his wife were sent the farthest to the far east at least picture was taken when grigori was in that. i had that much in this picture from a newspaper. you his face is blurred out. when grigori looked at it she told him this. i have been deleted. i am no more. three years later. died he was hit by

a train but the wife of cause menard 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. believes that her husband could not accept the fact that he had been dismissed from the cosmonaut squad so he chose a different kind of to the heavens. with god's help today aleksei has a 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 cause an ounce 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. for the work.

alexei cannot move independently underwater his spacesuit weighs two hundred kilos in open space the cars manav can count only on himself the need for such training became evident already after alexei leonore's first ever spacewalk. in march one thousand nine hundred sixty five. looking at these shots it is hard to believe that alexei the owner of this struggling to save his life the malfunction 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 suit for thirty minutes reducing pressure was also dangerous as it could cause his blood to boil which could lead to paralysis or even death to get back into the spaceship he had to take a gamble. got to fall from your sewer i 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 hand inside the airlock rip it with my hands and started moving chad first but i realized i wouldn't be able to get inside like the go a war hero. alexei harmon chalk 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 he must learn to do the simplest operations instinctively to avoid problems in space you're alexei he won't be able to stick it there. sorry for being slow what the title of the. usual lexy home in chokes successfully passes his exams in general space training he will be enrolled into cosmonaut squad 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 who finish the program eventually go into space. yuri gagarin became the first and most famous cause monogamous squat 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 got a they used to tell us that we would have to retire in a couple of years but it so happened that i flew only after eight years passed in fact i was the twenty first to fly even though the first squad consisted of twenty

men they were constantly replacing one cosmonaut with another for instance after guerin came the first woman in space valentina to discover that. when the moon program i was preparing for was cancelled made of i was appointed at the space ship commander officer hughes eleven they're going to but eleven hours before the launch and my crew was replaced willing flights of the station and a whole crew of so use eleven died in an accident or a stunt the then the second mission was cancelled the third mission was canceled. ten years of continuous training for flights. but who knows the budget well you're . waiting for their hour of triumph was a serious psychological challenge many had to wait for years cosmonaut dimitri 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 officer according to the decree on cosmonauts one cannot fly to space within a certain 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 the period she came to work for the squad right before him was going to leave for the lord which could not. both are in a row that was rare and i saw my tongue kind. with the assistant at the rally after going suppliant in one employee told me that the recent young man over there she's got dark glasses on so he thinks that no one can see who he's looking at you never took his eyes of you.

dmitri until she and i have been together for more than fifty years and 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 cover when i was going through the enrollment process later wanted to take part two. i was included in the same group as mock i had just given birth when her daughter was three years old

a year not finally passed to the entrance exam today she is the only woman among all the active cosmonauts though mark enter the service before iliana her first flight is scheduled for two thousand and fourteen today because when ons 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 endure the impossible to pave the way to the stars for future generations.

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