“Cosmonautics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow” - Internet meeting with cosmonaut Fedor Yurchikhin

Today, from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m. MSK, a meeting was held with cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin.

• “The first pancake” came out, alas, in places with a lump - the broadcast went off for about five minutes, for about twenty minutes. And the questions came with an echo. But this is a fixable problem, I hope that in the future it will be better.
• This is not much thought about, but now not young military pilots who are not older than 25 years go to astronauts, but, on the contrary, experienced specialists, engineers, scientists, doctors, and, moreover, they come to astronautics after 30 years. Yurchikhin himself, for example, was recruited into astronauts at 39 years old, and made his first flight at 43 years old.
• A classic tale about a space pen as an example, how some bother, and others do not bother. Fisher spent the money on the pen, not NASA, Internet sources insist on this, but, all the same, a lot of money was spent.
• A very interesting comparison: a spacecraft is a submarine that sails at a depth of 10 m, but “the opposite”.
• An interesting story about photographing in space, how it differs from terrestrial photographing.
• Apology of manned space flight and the description of first-hand work with a robonaut.
• A concise and clear answer that is required for further exploration of the cosmos by man. About "Plasma Crystal" on Habré there is a post .
• Fyodor Nikolaevich spoke very sharply about the program “Mars One” - in his opinion, a reasonable person will not fly to Mars in one direction, because it does not make sense. A colony of several tens of people, even if it can be created, cannot exist autonomously - tens of thousands of people are needed.
• Again, the question of reusable spacecraft and their profitability arises, the question of profit from space technology.
• Not much has been said about the training of astronauts and how to get used to fear.
• Quote: "We are going into space by the patriots of our countries, and we are returning the patriots of the Earth."
• At 42 minutes, the stream disappears, apparently, they asked about the film "Gravity". Fyodor Nikolaevich strongly criticized the film because of technical inaccuracies and advised to watch Apollo 13. Of course, the perception of the film is a matter of taste, I liked “Gravity”, but I join the advice to watch “Apollo 13”. Work on Earth and in space, the fight against an accident, a real drama is very well shown.
• Amused question about the instructions on the actions when meeting with aliens. The answer smoothly flowed into the philosophical question of our intelligence.
• Aytishikov will appreciate the story about computers and operating systems on the ISS.
• But Fedor Nikolayevich was very warm about space tourists. To be honest, after such a story, I began to think about them better.
• Interesting is the description of the perception of the ISS segments by astronauts and the rules of cultural recreation.

I hope that such broadcasts will continue.
And a small bike - I will remember for a long time how the NASA-TV announcer, commenting on the WBC in August 2013, clearly read the name Yurchikhin as Your Chicken. Probably, he used mnemonics in order to pronounce this difficult Russian surname ...