hello, i am pilot cosmonaut anton shkaplerov, this is a podcast space stories, today my guest is alexander khaklovr of cosmonautics, head of projects on educational nanosatellites, member of the russian academy of cosmonautics named after sayalkovsky. alexander, tell us how you got into cosmonautics? and my dear were books, that is, at an early age. i started reading books, and the first book that can be conventionally called science fiction, it was dunno on the moon, nosovo, after reading dunno on the moon, i became very interested in cosmonautics and space, after that other books followed, this is from the astronomy textbook, although i was a small child, he had already read, and before efremov, kir bolychev, bradbarry and so on, and reading science fiction, by the age of ten i clearly understood that i wanted to do cosmonautics, interest in cosmonautics led you to the rocket. space corporation energia, tell us what you did there? well, that's where i ended up because i had poor eyesight, when i was a high school student, and i looked at the requirements for cosmonauts, i learned that pilots, th

was important according to the conditions of the experiment, we continue the conversation with alexander khaklov about the mars experiment, with you anton shkaplerov. and did you feel that you were on mars? yes, we felt it, because this limitation, plus additional restrictions conditional for the experiment, those restrictions that people who go on a hike do not have, that is, we felt it, and the strongest sensations were in the second half of the experiment, already the second week, when it began, when on the one hand we got used to it, on the other hand, the outside world began to be forgotten, and there, in principle, it is not like that... cities, there are practically no planes flying there, such a deserted place, the only thing we sometimes mean at night saw one searchlight, very, very far away, this is the nearest airport, and at the end of the expedition a strong hurricane began, that is, clouds arrived, wind, some oblivion, we are in this station, darkness outside, no people nearby, because the nearest village is far away, there are few people, and there was like a sheriff's deputy watc