The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on the 18th the preliminary list of volunteers for the Russian-European "Mars-500" test, and Wang Yue, a volunteer from China and an astronaut instructor at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, was selected. The head of the Russian side of the test project, the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, deputy director of the preliminary list of volunteers announced at a press conference on the same day, in addition to Chinese volunteers Wang Yue, there are four volunteers from Russia, as well as from Italy and France, one volunteer each. At the same time, Morukov said, the Russian side of the 4 volunteers have a reserve candidate, that is to say, there will eventually be 6 volunteers to participate in this 520-day simulation test on Mars, the Russian side will soon announce the final list of volunteers. 80 after the astronauts instructor Wang Yue on behalf of China's trip to Mars. 7:58 on November 4, 2011, Wang Yue completed the task successfully, the third out of the hatch, then He gave a short speech to thank everyone for their support. The volunteers who participated in the Mars-500 program were selected through several rounds of auditions.
They are required to be between the ages of 25 and 50, in good health, emotionally stable, passionate and motivated, have advanced degrees and be open to different cultures.
Living in isolation for 520 days, serious psychological problems due to loneliness and isolation are the worst. Therefore, the psychological character traits of the volunteers are very important, and the crew as a whole must be able to embrace different personalities and talents so as to form an overall synergy.
Russia recruits volunteers from a pool of more than 4,000 candidates from all over the world, screened in layers taking into account factors such as age, weight, height, educational background and language. A panel of experts organizes rigorous interviews to determine a volunteer's motivation and ability to perform the task.
Candidates with the right qualifications and experience in the relevant field of research were brought together in Moscow and again subjected to a rigorous medical examination in various departments.
At the end of the process, more than 10 volunteers remained, who underwent more than two months of theoretical and practical training at the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, and six were finally selected to participate in the "Mars-500" experiment. Each of them is specialized in their own field of expertise, serving as commander, shipboard engineer, crew doctor, landing spacecraft pilot and Mars surface operation expert. China Astronaut Center from more than 70 scientific and technological workers in the physical and psychological layers of selection, and the organization of candidates to Russia to participate in the physical examination interviews and other work, the Russian side finally determined that Wang Yue selected.
Wang Yue was earlier a master's student at the China Astronaut Center. Because of his outstanding performance in study and work, he stayed at the center after graduation in 2008 to work as an astronaut instructor. According to Wu Bin, director of the Astronaut Selection and Training Research Laboratory, where he works, Wang has a relatively deep knowledge and understanding of the manned spaceflight career despite his short time on the job.
Most of the foreign volunteers who participated in the test did not have a background in spaceflight, while Wang himself is an astronaut instructor and has participated in the Shenzhou-7 mission. Wang Yue
Wang Yue is the Chinese candidate who applied for the 520-day Mars 500 study. He is from Jiangsu province and is 27 years old. Before joining the Mars 500 study, Wang was a Chinese astronaut training assistant, working on acclimatization and crew selection. Wang graduated from the Department of Preventive Medicine at Nanjing Medical College in China in 2005 and the Department of Psychology at the China Astronaut Center in 2008. Wang began his astronaut training program in 2008 to prepare for the selection of the Shenzhou VII mission, in addition to which he participated in the initial selection of Chinese astronauts.
Wang Yue's hobbies include basketball, soccer, swimming and reading.
Diego Urbina
Diego Urbina, who holds dual Italian and Colombian citizenship, became a member of the Mars Desert Research Station in Utah, USA, in January 2010, working on tropical plant growth and space suit limitations.
Urbina was a participant in the "Aramis" program at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy in 2008 and has worked on the "Aramis" project. "In 2008, Urbina worked at the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, on the development of the Aramis nanosatellite altitude and orbit control system. After graduating from university, Urbina worked in education in developing countries.
From May to August 2009, Urbina interned at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory of the European Astronaut Center, part of the European Space Agency, where he received astronaut training and hands-on experience with related equipment. Urbina participated in the Image Reversal in Space (IRIS) experiment for the International Space Station, and supported extensive baseline data acquisition and measurements to test the results of the experiment during the European Space Agency's 50th Parabolic Flight Experiment in 2009.
Born in May 1983, Urbina holds a bachelor's and master's degree in electrical engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, and a master's degree in space studies from the Université Internationale de l'Aérospatiale, France. He has a wide range of interests and enjoys scuba diving, graphic design, painting, fitness and soccer.
Romain Charles
Romain Charles is from France and has been working for SOTIRA, a subsidiary of the SORA Group, since 2005. Charles is currently in charge of quality management at Sotira and has worked as a quality engineer when the company developed products for companies such as Tesla Motors, Aston Martin and McLaren. Sotira's business is primarily involved in the production of composite panels.
In 2004, after graduating, Charles worked for a while at the automotive parts manufacturer MANN+HUMMEL, also as a quality engineer at that time, on several projects to develop products for the Japanese company Nissan. Born in 1979 and living in St. Malo, France, Charles studied at the Institut des Hautes études en Mechanique (IHEM) in Clermont-Ferrand from 1999 to 2004, where he earned a master's degree in engineering. His interests are equally wide-ranging and include reading, watching movies, surfing the Internet, swimming, running, and scuba diving. Charles is also a member of the International Junior Chamber of Commerce.
Alexei Shitev
Alexei Shitev, 38, is a naval engineer living in Star City, near Moscow. In addition to being a Russian participant in the Mars 500 research project, he was appointed commander of the project, graduating in 1996 from the Dzhekhisky Institute of Advanced Military and Naval Engineering in St. Petersburg, where he specialized in search and rescue and deep-sea diving, research into rescue and gondola methods, and the construction of rescue ships and gondolas. gondola construction.
Shitev has been an instructor and commander of a Black Sea fleet in Vastopol, Ukraine, since 1996. During his service, he trained more than 250 junior professionals of the naval fleet in deep-sea diving, and in 2004 he became the chief engineer and researcher (advanced diving specialist) at the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center, where he also served as head of diving training. At this training center, cosmonauts who are inducted into the International Space Station are trained for spacewalks in neutral floatation tanks. Outside of work, Hitev enjoys traveling, photography and diving.
Sokurov Kamolov
Sokurov Kamolov is one of the participants in Russia's Mars 500 program. A 37-year-old surgeon living in Moscow, Kamolov graduated from the Medical University of Tajikistan in 1994 and from the Russian Kirov Military Medical Academy in St. Petersburg in 1996, and completed his internship as a real surgeon in 1997.
In 1998, Kamolov joined the Central Military Hospital in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, and then joined the Department of Oral Surgery in 2001. from 2004 to 2006, he served as a resident at the Bakolev Scientific Center for Cardiovascular Surgery in Moscow, where he was involved in cardiac surgery as first assistant. in 2009, he received his doctorate degree with a specialization in prosthetic aortic valves. Kamolov's interests include film and theater, as well as sports.
Alexander Smolensky
Alexander Smolensky, 32, is a military doctor and psychologist who lives in Moscow.He graduated from the Kirov Military Medical Academy in 2005, and became a full-fledged doctor a year later after completing an internship in general medicine.
He has been a researcher at the Scientific Research and Testing Center for Aerospace, Space Medicine and Military Bioengineering since 2006. He is an expert in the testing of aerospace systems, military equipment models, medical instrumentation, institutional and systemic medical assurance. In addition to this, he is engaged in research aimed at increasing human tolerance to unsuitable environmental factors and exercise situations. Since 2009, he has been the head of the Psycho-Physiological Research Laboratory, where he studies communication issues involving human-computer interaction systems.
In addition to his professional interests, Smolensky's other hobbies include sports and fishing. The "Mars-500" test is a large-scale international test organized by Russia with multinational participation. The main task of the test is to explore the interaction of "man and environment", to understand the state of health of the crew and their ability to work in a closed environment for a long period of time, in particular, to obtain data on the duration of the flight, full autonomy, limited resources, the impossibility of carrying out special physical and psychological treatments, and the completion of the activities on the surface of the planet out of the capsule.
The 520-day confinement test is the third phase of the "Mars-500" experiment. This is the first time in the history of mankind to simulate the entire process of Mars round-trip flight, including the launch of the spacecraft, flying to Mars, landing and return to Earth and other aspects. The 520-day experiment is divided into three parts: the first 250 days of flight to Mars, the middle 30 days of landing on Mars, and the last 240 days of return to Earth. The spacecraft is fully autonomous, with medical assistance realized through telemetry and autonomous psychological support. The communication mode simulates the real Mars flight status, and there is a 20-minute time lag between heaven and earth. The test requires a one-time carry including all the products loaded on board, during which there is no replenishment.
The selection of volunteers to participate in the test began last November. Thousands of volunteer candidates from all over the world were selected through several rounds of screening, including basic condition selection, medical selection and psychological selection, and finally six people were identified to form the flight crew. They have specialties in medicine, engineering, biology, computers and many other fields, and have undergone special mission training in Russia.
The Mars-500 test was conducted in a ground-based simulation chamber outside Moscow, Russia. The design of the experimental module takes full account of the crew in the long-term narrow environment of work and life and security needs, *** counting 550m3, by the living module, medical module, public *** activities module, Mars landing module simulator, lightweight inflatable Mars surface simulation module and so on the composition of the five parts. 2009 April, the simulation test into the fourth week, although in isolation in the environment of nearly 100 days, but the six volunteers are still enthusiastic, but the six volunteers are still very excited. Despite living in isolation for nearly 100 days, the six volunteers were still full of enthusiasm and excitement. The six volunteers, all men, include four Russian cosmonauts, a French pilot and a German engineer. In this environment, they can only entertain themselves by decorating the fully enclosed cabin, playing poker to pass the time, and playing homemade musical instruments to celebrate "Cosmonaut Day". Oliver Knickel, a German engineer, wrote in his diary: "We sat on the floor of the crew cabin and sang together, while Sergei, the Russian 'commander', accompanied us on his guitar. Cyril came up with the brilliant idea for us to make drums and rattles out of empty plastic crates, which we used to collect liquids for our experiments. With that, we formed a makeshift band."
Nicol also recalls playing poker with his companions and failing miserably, "I'd never played a game like that before, and I was really impressed by the skill of my companions. After a short while, I realized I didn't have a single chip left, while they had chips stacked high in front of them." The purpose of this reality TV show-like task is to study the psychological and physiological effects of living in isolation on stress, sleep quality and immune levels.
The volunteers' only contact with the outside world is through messages sent from a control center, but it takes at least 20 minutes for every word they send to be received by the control center, and 20 minutes for messages replied to by the center to get back to them, in an effort to mimic as closely as possible the environment of spaceflight. They are not allowed to smoke or drink alcohol, and are limited to canned and dehydrated foods like the astronauts on the International Space Station. In addition, they are not allowed to take a refreshing hot shower each day, but can only clean themselves in a sauna-like drying room and towel off sweat stains.
Volunteers are given a "hearty" lunch, which is accompanied by a selection of vegetables from the greenhouse inside the simulator. Cyrille Fournier, a French pilot, wrote: "Every day, baby carrots, sliced onions and cabbage leaves are a delicacy for us. There is no better time of the day than checking how the tomatoes we grow are growing, when they are ripe, and especially the strawberries."
Every day, the volunteers engage in a large number of experiments supported by the European Space Agency. They analyze the amount of hydrogen in their breath after a meal and test an "electronic nose". This electronic device detects the presence of bacteria or fungus in the capsule using a filtration system. They also hooked up EEG monitors to monitor brain activity and analyzed the effects of living in isolation and electric lights on sleep patterns.
Fournier admitted: "Sleep could be a big problem in this trial. By not knowing whether it's day or night, our bodies are gradually generating their own biological clocks. We are gradually lengthening the 'daytime' hours, aiming to go to bed later and later each day, although the 24-hour-a-day cycle must be maintained! We will see the effects of this." The test, which will last 105 days, will pave the way for another 500-day mission that will completely mimic the real Martian environment. The Institute of Medical and Biological Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences announced on the 18th the preliminary list of volunteers for the Russian-European "Mars-500" test, and Wang Yue, a volunteer from China and an astronaut instructor at the China Astronaut Research and Training Center, was selected.
Morukov, deputy director of the Russian Institute of Medical and Biological Problems and head of the Russian side of the test project, announced the preliminary list of volunteers at a press conference on the same day. In addition to the Chinese volunteer Wang Yue, there are four volunteers from Russia, as well as one volunteer each from Italy and France. Morukov also said that one of the four Russian volunteers is a reserve candidate, which means that there will eventually be six volunteers to participate in the 520-day simulation test on Mars, and the Russian side will soon announce the final list of volunteers. 80 astronaut instructor Wang Yue on behalf of China's trip to Mars .
November 4, 2011, 7:58 pm, Wang Yue successfully completed the mission, the third out of the hatch, and then made a short speech to thank everyone for their support. At 14:00 Moscow time on November 4, 2011 (18:00 Beijing time on November 4), Chinese volunteer Wang Yue and his five companions from other countries finished the 520-day-long simulation test between Mars and Earth, and stepped out of the simulation spacecraft to "return to Earth". So far, from China, Russia, France and Italy volunteers *** with the participation of mankind's first simulation of Mars manned flight test - "Mars - 500" was a complete success. Wang Yue and his companions in the simulation flight successfully carried out more than 100 experimental projects, including the Chinese side of the organization to carry out the long-term confined environment of the human body in the study of traditional Chinese medicine and other three test projects have reached the expected goal.
The Institute of Biomedical Problems of the Russian Academy of Sciences held a special welcoming ceremony for the six volunteers that day. "We welcome you back to Earth!" After the host's enthusiastic words, the slowly opening door of the simulated spaceship immediately became the focus of the cameras in the hands of more than a hundred journalists at the scene. A few seconds later, the volunteers in blue uniforms walked out of the hatch one by one amidst warm applause. When the third Chinese volunteer appeared at the hatch, the scene rang out "Wang Yue! Wang Yue!" The cheers were loud. Wang Yue looked around and greeted everyone with a wave and a smile. Despite the prolonged isolation from the outside world, Wang Yue still looks radiant. From his blinking eyes, it's easy to see that this "post-80s" astronaut instructor has a lively and cheerful personality and excellent physical qualities.
"After 520 days, we're finally back, and I'm very happy to meet you all again ......," Wang said in a brief speech in Chinese and English, before leaving the event with other volunteers to undergo a medical checkup. Next, they will undergo a three-day comprehensive medical examination and a month-long extravehicular test. In addition, it was announced that Wang Yue will meet with his colleagues in China and enjoy dumplings and other delicious Chinese food at a family reunion later in the day. Wang is expected to return home in early December.