Eliseev Cosmonaut Personal Biography
Each of the three starts of Alexei Stanislavovich Eliseev marked a new stage in the development of space. The first time he went up to orbit by a sorcerer. Eliseev and E. October of the year. And among them A. finally, April 23. But a person lives not only real, but also the future - his aspirations and plans. He wants to know everything. How did life arise on Earth? Is there anywhere else?
If there is, what are its forms? Are there really “black holes”? The list of such questions can be continued and continued; Moreover, each revealed secret of space gives rise to several new puzzles. The road of scientific search is endless; Probably, each next stage in the development of space will be more complicated than the previous one and will require more perfect technical equipment.
Of course, it would be very tempting to join the efforts of all people. Probably, only when the inhabitants of our planet are captured by some elevated goal, they can call themselves the proud name “humanity”. And the future is an increasingly complete and rational use of natural resources, the whole intensifying machinery of human labor, all the accelerating advance along the path of knowledge and - I hope - all greater creative activity, enthusiasm for its labor!
And I don’t even know which one prevailed firstly, I passionately wanted to feel a completely new world for myself. See the stars "near" and land from the side. To experience weightlessness yourself, find out what a rocket is on a rocket, a descent from a height of two hundred kilometers. Secondly, there was some internal need to test yourself in a difficult environment, in difficult conditions and be sure to cope with the assigned task.
It is likely that this would seem like a boyfriend, but I longed to prove to myself that I was able to fulfill the most responsible business, that I could rely on me well. But to see a completely different thing with your own eyes! For example, cosmic dawns, which the astronauts love to remember so much, is a fabulous picture in their beauty! Just imagine: in front of you on an impenetrable black background, a huge rainbow appears, consisting of juicy pure colors, and its spectrum is continuously changing.
The eye cannot be torn. Unfortunately, neither artistic paints, nor a colored photo film are able to convey this beauty. And polar radiance! The impression is that millions of powerful spotlights built in a row and luminous right up! Or tropical night thunderstorms! It happens that cloud fields with an area of millions of hectares are constantly breaking out!
Moreover, it is so bright that they illuminate the spaceship and you distinguish all the details of its constructions! .. Well, as for the meeting with aliens, here I am not ready for a serious conversation. So far, there is no reliable information about the existence of extraterrestrial life, and even more so about its forms. However, the contact of the two civilizations does not have to be mutual.
Probably, the life forms and the level of its development on different celestial bodies are so dissimilar that one of the parties may not suspect that it has long been in contact with the other. Unfortunately, now we do not even have minimal information to build any reasonable hypotheses about the nature of such a meeting. But the goals of those and other costs are not comparable.
On the one hand, the destruction of material wealth and human lives themselves; On the other hand, the desire to know the world and use the laws of nature in the interests of progress. When the states agree on the termination of military expenses, the most significant victory in the history of mankind will be won. Undoubtedly, some of the released funds will go to the development of astronautics.
And then the scientific, technical and national economic effect from space programs will become much higher. To “move” somewhere from the ground, you will need a huge aircraft, where a large group of people could live more or less for a long time and for a rather long time. Stock up with water, food and oxygen for the entire period of the flight is unrealistic.
So, you can’t do without a closed environmental cycle here. But if such a cycle can be created, then why and fly away? Indeed, with its help it is possible to live perfectly in the currently uninhabited areas of the planet: in barren deserts, polar ice, on the ocean day, however, if the main goal of the space of the cosmos will become the acquisition of information and energy, then now it is not difficult to foresee some options for the development of such a process.
This is a search for planets with close to earthly natural conditions, the creation of artificial celestial bodies and natural transformation. Our descendants will learn how to change the orbit of the new “lands”, create the atmospheres of the desired composition on them, to change the properties of their soil, to form a favorable biological environment, such a preparation will become a kind of “order to receive housing”.
The endless Kazakhstan steppe. Vladimir Shatalov and Evgeny Khrunov and I stand near the descent apparatus and observe how the experts of the evacuation service inspect it and prepare for sending it. Around us people were crowded, mostly collective farmers.They worked in the field, saw a huge white-orange parachute in the sky and ran away, and some rushed to cars and motorcycles to find out what was happening here.
Everyone has stunned faces, they are talking exclusively in a whisper-in a word, a look as if they are present with something completely incredible. From time to time, we prompt specialists where there are on-board magazines, photographic photons, scientific devices and suddenly I feel that someone carefully touches my hand. I turn around: two women carefully look around me, and one even tries to the touch to determine what “material” I am from.
The fact that I turned around did not embarrass them at all. Finally, the one that conducted the “examination” stated with surprise: “Warm! But, on the other hand, in those years, everything related to the cosmos was still too new and unusual. Next in line are other worlds