Unexpected surprises and challenges witnessed in the sixth episode of the program «Astronauts» on Dubai TV, as the participants moved to the Yuri Gagarin Astronaut Training Center in Russia.
At the beginning of the episode, which aired last Sunday evening, the public followed a special report on the end of the first stage of challenges in Dubai, which resulted in the exit of six participants, to move the rest of the contestants to a new stage of challenges, as they learned the principles of Russian language from the moment they entered the Yuri Gagarin Center In the city of Star City, 50 km from the Russian capital Moscow.
The participants met with jury members and former Russian astronaut Oleg Kotov, who briefed them on the journey of Yuri Gagarin, the first astronaut to orbit the planet, while Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield spoke about his first experience at the center. In 1994, and the difficulties it faced in terms of learning the Russian language at first, before the participants were introduced to the set of exclusive challenges at this stage, which is a real simulation of the astronauts undergoing tests and training around the world.
After a short break and a visit to the room of the Mir space station, the six participants underwent the first challenges of this stage, through the revolving chair test, to practice on nausea in the light of conflicting senses and inability to concentrate on simple things, preceded by the wedge test as a neurological test. Myself focuses on the brain's ability to coordinate between vision and handicraft, by dividing it into three stages starting with each participant trying to put as many sticks as possible in 30 seconds using the right hand, followed by the left, to the third stage using both hands.
The first challenge resulted in convergent results among participants, with a slight progress in the performance of Emirati Mohammed Ahli, who achieved higher results than the rest of the participants, while the tension appeared on the Saudi Nizar Qattan with high blood pressure and heart rate at the beginning of this stage of challenges, The same is true of the Lebanese Rana Nicolas, while the situation appeared normal for Saudi Arabia Mashail Al-Shamimri, Lebanese Mohammed Abbas and Kuwaiti Bader Al-Mawla. On the other hand, the six participants visited the Space Museum and the Center for Aeronautics and Navigation, to see the first official satellite that launched the bitch «Leica» into space, and saw the space suit worn by Yuri Gargarin on April 12, 1961 during the first human flight to space, before Everyone returns to headquarters with the Soyuz spacecraft responsible for transporting astronauts to and from the International Space Station, and astronaut Chris Hadfield explained the instructions that participants should follow while wearing a special Sokol suit to learn the technical understanding, memory and quietness. And awareness of the vocabulary of Gh Russian. As the challenges of the astronauts' politics program ended, the jury members invited the participants to the evaluation room at the Yuri Gagarin Center, where they were informed of the decision not to leave any of the participants, to complete the rest of the tests at the center, and move everyone to the next round of competitions.
Exceptional experience
In cooperation with the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), the Dubai TV screen shows the astronauts program to achieve the dream of entrepreneurship and access to space in an exceptional experience, with a group of experts and specialists in space science and psychological and physical tests, led by Canadian astronaut, Chris Hadfield, to By Saud Karmastaji, a specialist in space science, and psychologist Loma Niqash.