this street still keeps its secrets but now it's time to reveal. the soviet frogs and. their week's top stories in today's news from r.t. the u.n. sets the stage to send observers to syria with its first resolution on the conflict designed to prop up the shaky cease fire for its team of thirty monitors will pave the way for hundreds more. egypt shortens the list of presidential candidates as former barack sidekick so put it out of the running thousands of business rallied in color in support of a new normal venting from a regime officials from entering its. it's the final push for francis top job

as voters alerts to the extremes of concerns of immigration identity and posing new conservative rivals nicolas sarkozy of france or hold sunday rallies in paris. plus millions of orthodox christians around the world celebrate the resurrection of christ in the rubbish easter ceremonies held across those. holy fire which was ignited in jerusalem as a group to russia from the centuries old tradition. of the century often one kind of first and it was the stars tina revealed some of the same space secrets. well so who will go first you first know you only five out of twenty are still alive. five participants of one of the most secret and ambitious missions of the soviet union leaders good or bad about it and

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 life. they were the first cosmonauts one of these men were chosen to prepare for the first ever human spaceflight 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 hermann chook was an engineer and a helicopter pilot just eighteen months ago now he is 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. you should

stop sending it because. these 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 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. paramount there the ball first called hunters are too many physical exercises at the most because people did not know from when to start a chewable. 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. if you could fill in a sin so an out of thirty two were hits a little articles or gentle carries that was enough to completely rule you out of the running of it. 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 headed 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 via lum off was the first one to drop out from the cosmonaut squad for medical reason. alexi foreman chuck is undergoing centrifuge training they are checking if he can bear the extreme forces of gravity during takeoff. during will change when a car is going up must not only keep conscious but also be able to distinguish and

remember letters and symbols after the ordeal the amount of force inside the center fusion is measured in g. in the 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 had in addition it was an open centrifuge and it was cracked all over by nine g. it was creaking when it hit twelve g. i didn't care about the force anymore it was more concerned about whether would fly off if everything was applied to collapse. but that. yuri gagarin was in super physical shape but even those tests were torture for him as the speed in the centrifuge grows it becomes harder to brief the head feels heavy

as if it is filled with lead. or did it that they cured out a research on how long a person can stand if they just put it out on me yet the direction of the force from help the pelvis go up at foggy for thirty seconds then at sixty four thirty seconds at seventy for thirty seconds. it was at age she i began to blackout and went almost blind and 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. a great number of doctors weakly appeared to carry out serious scientific experiments on human beings.

but over that we were guinea pigs that's what they called us to tell the truth so there were. seven months until lift off. 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 of years and that more people would be needed because space ships would be more tray seated. on a totally cutter shore of 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 as in the blood vessels on his back could burst in that means if those on his back burst they could burst in the brain this can be deadly though it was dismissed

from the cosmonauts and continued working as a pilot's. because the show was replaced by a really good email you will of 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 noble gregory near you wolf stood up and said come race chief marshal we have an impression that they do not prepare us for space flights but swell the test what we can survive. a commander appointed a responsible person and said that they had selected those people from three thousand pilots not for one single flight and that they would need them in the future. he ordered a review of the training program to be less of

a strain on their health. or. here you can see the release of space exploration the youngest and the strongest man. three occupation was top secret. and we asked people if they could recognize any of them in the picture and they could not everything about them with classify it. this is a museum in the city of garrett 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 shares of 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 regard him also underwent a test. there was an accident in this very isolation chamber. what happened in this chamber was kept secret for a long time an isolation chamber is a special airtight soundproof room in which low pressure conditions are created a cause menard 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 a bit younger than your valentine bhandari and co was going to take any she had to do this one has to put in a special account of what sensors needed for these it is necessary to rub the skin with alcohol to ensure good contact with the sensors it will cut off a gun but the media world at the time there was a cooking still beside him. and he 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 cup and will caught fire instantly. in. those on jupiter we were meant to be watching him through the window so if anything were to happen they were to open the door to meet chip trick that's risky but they noticed it 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 that's. when he was taken out of the chamber he said steps he was the only one to blame rather than anybody else. valentino bundle you died in hospital several hours later he was not even among the top six valentyn 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 scientists i'm told so sometimes it's. hot. 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 because of. course i know i read that your ego guardian should be the one. you know others said that the you want to should go to get a month's doth. and then marse rafique author said that you had to be the first to fly because his first name was the same name as of mine a beer or a mortal near. him or martha. of the sister of. when the six men were taken to the hangar where the first stock spacecraft was being prepared chief rocket designer sergei khojaly asked who would like to get inside to see the. good origin cried out the t.v. it before getting in good guarin 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 a lawyer there were two with one week until it doth the names of the first three candidates for the space flight were finally announced but senior lieutenant yuri going to airing. the senior lieutenant on to golf. then kept wondering gauri 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 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 testing the cosmonauts in this way. after the emergency landing of the was hard to space craft a nine hundred sixty five cosmonauts carville 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 from. the first night we slept in a space ship me to come on a second day the rescuers foreigners in that he built us a small wooden hut we washed ourselves cure all the locals brought a huge cauldron. we heated the snow and power and i were sitting in this current 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 liftoff. elmander in the state commission recommends for the first person to fly into space should be senior lieutenant yuri gagarin hear it here. gillum teed

off was named back a pilot blog liguori know you both 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. no no. he was ardent. i remember how without having flow into space even hey of those if he had done so. in april nine hundred sixty two was expelled along with iran and cared for involved in the philosophy of from the first cosmonauts wired for breaching discipline and insignia 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 for the record he 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. the growth of the squad together together to vote on the matter of their expulsion or the portal being gory valentijn 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 to know you both together with his wife were sent the farthest to the far east at this picture was taken when grigori was in the. i had that much in this picture for when you stay for. you she's face is blurred out. when grigori looked at it and she told me this that i have been deleted. i am no more.

three years later rigor ino you above died he was hit by a train but the wife of cause may 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 zenaida believes that her husband could not accept the fact that he had been dismissed from the cosmonaut squad so he chose a different path to the heavens. with god's help today aleksei has his first training session in so-called open space only 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 cause of an art 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 early on of is 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 can 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. 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 hand inside the airlock rip it with my hand sense started moving had first but i realised i wouldn't be able to get inside like the will go away. 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 your alexei you won't be able to stick it there. sorry for being slow what of the title of the. if alexi home in chalk 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. during the gerund became the first and most famous cause monogamous was 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. in gaza

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 past 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 but for instance after guerin came the first woman in space valentino tarrasque over that that. when the moon program i was preparing for was cancelled i was appointed at the space ship commander officer hughes eleven but eleven hours before the launch my crew was replaced when flights of the station and a whole crew of so use eleven died in an accident or a stunt the but then the second mission was cancelled the third mission was cancelled i was. ten years of continuous training for flights. but who knows the bucket. 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 ulcer 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. she came to work for the squad right before him was going to leave for the lord which could not. put them. in a row or that was right and i saw my tongue kind. with the this is the at the rally after going through flight. one employee told me

that the receipt young man over there she's got dark glasses on so he thinks that no one can see who he's looking at it as you never took his eyes over here that's. dimitri 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 ear off was selected for doing 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 and later wanted to take part two. i wasn't included in the same group as mark i had just given birth when her daughter was three years old the year finally passed the entrance exam today she is the only woman among all the active cosmonauts though mark enter the service before you know her first flight is scheduled for two thousand and fourteen today because when i was have to spend about seven years training but they are no longer plagued with torture essential sizes they learn only what they really need for spaceflight and it is all thanks to the first team of cosmonauts we endured of the impossible to pave the way to the stars for future generations.

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