Two months ago (in March), Canadian astronaut Christopher Hadfield gave a speech at TED . (The same astronaut who sang a song with a guitar on board the ISS. "This song is the very embodiment of the romance of space exploration." Writes Lenta.ru)
In his speech, Chris raises the question of what to do with his fear, tells a little about what it is like to get into a rocket when the chance to die 1 out of 40. The Canadian astronaut concerns the fear of spiders and shares how the training center prepares that being in a situation for which was not ready, be prepared.
Under the cut - English transcript, in the comments - translation. 0:11 What's the scariest thing you've ever done ? What was the worst thing you did in life?
Or another way to say it is what you’ve done? Or would I rather ask that from what you did in life was the most dangerous?
And why did you do it? And why did you do it?
NASA does the math. I know that I committed the most dangerous, because NASA keeps records.
During the first five shuttle launches, it was one in nine. If you look back, we will see that the probability of a disaster during the first five launches of Shuttles was 1 out of 9.
And even when I first flew in the shuttle flight, I wasn’t in flight, I wasn’t in one . Even when I flew on the Shuttle for the first time in 1995, there is 74 Shuttle flight, the probability that we can look back is 1 out of 38 or 1 out of 35, 1 out of 40.
It is a great deal of effort to relax. in space, or you'll be dead. Not the best chance, so it was a very exciting day when you wake up at the Kennedy Space Center and you have to fly that day, because by the end of the day you will either fly delightfully in weightlessness in space or be dead.
You’ve gone to the space where you’ve been given the chance to get up in the space. You go to the locker room at the Kennedy Space Center, to the same dressing room where the heroes of our childhood dressed, where Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin dressed their space suits to fly the Apollo rocket to the moon.
It is a heading for you. Your Ad Here Xenon lights, you can go off the planet. So I put on my high-rise compensating suit and go on the bus on the road leading to the launch platform - in Astro bus - taxiing from around the corner of the space center, at dawn, in the distance you can see, illuminated by huge xenon lamps, your spacecraft - a transport that will take you away from this planet.
It can be a bit bigger, it’s a bit harder The crew is sitting in the Astro-bus, which has become quiet, almost holding hands, looks at how the ship becomes more and more.
Two o'clock I’m going to ride the car up and down, I’m going to go back to your back. It’s a real life, it’s a real challenge. many minutes of actually happening. In the astronaut business - it is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. You can’t make it worse. (Laughter); You can’t go through.
Three o'clock This excitement is building. It has been a lot of time for the whole vehicle, it has to you like an elephant getting up The APUs are running, it is ready to go. And 15 seconds before launch, this happens: (Video) Voice: 12, 11, 10, nine, eight, seven, six - (Space shuttle preparing for takeoff) - start, two, one, booster ignition, and liftoff shuttle Discovery, returning to the space station, paving the way ... (Space shuttle taking off)
4:09 Chris Hadfield: It is incredibly powerful. You are in the grip of something that is vastly more powerful than yourself. You can’t focus on the instruments. There is a lot of space for you to relax. Seeing your wipes with a smile and a smile on your face. In the end of the 19th century, it’s possible to complete the process. It gets heavier and heavier. It feels like someone's pouring cement on you or something. If you’ve been running, you can’t get it. And we're alive. It's an amazing experience. But why would we take that risk? Why would you do something that dangerous?
5:26 In my case the answer is fairly straightforward. I wanted to do. I’m not sure why I’m not really interested in what I mean. It comes from it? How do you deal with fear versus danger? In the end of the day, she’d be It is a rule of thumb for a man of 200 experiments inside.
6:21 It could be even more importantly, it could be a drop. This is the world itself. And you see, because of the speed, a sunset or a sunset every 45 minutes for half a year. This is the most magnificent part of spacewalk. You are going through your spacesuit. You are not looking at the universe. Turn around beside you.
7:26 By it mesmerizingly next to you. If you want to stick your hair, you can stick it. and you are one of the seven seven billion people. I was spacewalk I’m not sure why. I couldn’t figure it out. I was thinking, what do I do next? I thought, well maybe thats why I had two eyes, so I kept working. But unfortunately, without gravity, tears don't fall. It is a little bit that she eventually gets the ball. I was completely blind outside the spaceship.
8:34 So what's the scariest thing you've ever done? (Laughter) Maybe it's spiders. A lot of people are afraid of spiders. I think you’re creepy and I’m not afraid of you. If you’re a little bit blunt, you could’t be sitting right in front of you. And how do you know? This is why spiders are scary. But then you couldn’t say, you’re sitting back beside me or not? I don't know. Are there brown recluses here? There are about 50,000 different types of spiders, and you can’t find out about 50,000.
9:24 And there you are in Canada, there are 720, 730 different types of spirits, and there is one a nasty sting. Spider has beautiful markings, it's like “I'm dangerous. It’s a bit of a radiation radiation pattern. ”" going to go through a web spider web where a black widow bites you. Spider webs like this And the spider eats the male; it doesn't care about you. So in fact, you can’t go to your caveman reaction. The danger is completely different than the fear.
10:17 How do you get around it, though? How do you change your behavior? Well, make sure you have a good look, make sure you’re a black widow spider, and then go to it. And then you see another spiderweb and walk into that one. It's just a little bit of fluffy stuff. It's not a big deal. Lady spitting it up. If you want to go through the spiderwebs, you can’t make it. or whatever, into your own basement. And you can apply this to anything. If you want to panic, I think. It would make you feel nervous and worried. But we had considered all the venom, and we had practiced with the whole variety of different spiderwebs. We knew everything there was to know. You must be walking through those spiderwebs.
11:29 It’s like you’re realistic. So when you finally get the spacewalk, you get it out first. And even if you're blinded, your natural, panicky reaction does not happen. I can hear you, I can hear you, Scott Parazynski is out here with me. He could come over and help me. ”I’ve actually been practicing an incapacitated crew rescue. I could find my own way back. It's not nearly as big a deal. If you are going to be working, then you’ll keep working. He added that he had to make it to the bottom of the floor. in my eye. Johnson's No More Tears, which we probably should have been using. (Laughter)
12:39 Where is the real risk? What is the real thing? Not just a generic fear of bad things happening. It is a fact that it can be completely denied to you ... It is a clear idea that it can be seen as a dream. You can’t have your fears. You’re a beauty that otherwise never would have happened.
13:38 It's time to come home at the end. This is our spaceship, the Soyuz, that little one. Three spaces of us climb in, and then this spaceships from the station and falls into the atmosphere. Here are the details. It’s a little bit that you’re riding a meteorite and you’re a meteorite. If you’ve found a girlfriend, you’re It has been shown that the orbital mechanics has been applied. This is a 15-kilometer circle anywhere on the Earth. So in fact, we were not screaming, we were laughing; it was fun. It was a nice little clockwork mechanism. Soyuz, in Kazakhstan.
15:04 (Video) Reporter: Russian Mi-8 helicopters. Touchdown - 3:14 and 48 seconds, am Central Time. It’s a little fun. And then eventually you’ll be able to get out, you can’t get it. You can’t be scared, you can’t It could be possible otherwise. Just to finish, they asked me to play that guitar. I’m not sure that I’ve been singing this song. take our own self-perception into a new place.
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David Bowie- Space Oddity Original Video (1969)
Space Oddity (withdrawn in connection with the complaint of the copyright holder)