Secret astronaut

Along with the widely publicized program of 'Apollo' in the United States was established another. Its name is ' Plutonium ' - the realm of the dead, was not beneficial for publicity, but ... ' Plutonium ' was a top secret project. Its aim was to achieve superiority in outer space, beginning with Mars and Pluto, to the most.
In the mid- sixties of last century, the United States were preparing to take revenge, and finally around the Soviet Union in the field of space research. The program 'Apollo', which put the mission first step in the construction of American space superiority, did not give guarantees: a problem with its implementation, on the one hand, and the uncertainty that prevailed on the Soviet side of the Iron Curtain, was not allowed to say with certainty that the first on the moon . And if it turns out for a month or two before, then there will be enough of it to the American people could believe in complete superiority?.


But the technology that can develop such speed to travel, say to Mars, lasted for weeks, and the satellites of Saturn - a few months, then in the mid- sixties, there was no. However, the designers worked to create a nuclear engine, and believed that the first high-speed spaceships will appear, at the latest by the end of the eighties - early nineties. But even they will be traveling to Pluto for at least two to three years. The system of life support, food, water, oxygen will occupy a fair amount of weight space cruisers, and thus further slow the rate of. In addition, many months, and the more long-term stay in a confined space can cause serious psychological problems. Then the doctors suggested putting astronauts in suspended animation, artificial sleep at a temperature close to zero. In this case, required far less cumbersome system software, dramatically decreased the need for food and excluded conflict within the crew.

But there was a problem: nobody knew in advance how people behave after hibernation. There are two main groups: the first after waking retains its identity, the second is the same strain, people become mentally unbalanced, prone to conflicts up to the murder. The only way to determine who will be someone - is to conduct pre-flight test session is suspended animation in order to weed out unsuitable candidates.

People in the team ' Plutonium ' recruited from soldiers to perform military service in Vietnam. Demanded the young, healthy, single men, preference was given to orphans. They offered to participate in the project: first preliminary session of suspended animation, and then, when they created that are suitable for interplanetary ships, they wake up, prepare for the flight and sent to deep space. Of course, the sleep time for them to continue salary, which is placed in the bank, will also interest, because even if someone in outer space and will not fall, it will still be rich and respected member of society.

Twenty- eight people have given their consent and were immersed in artificial sleep. Supervised medical side of the project ' Plutonium ' Peter Vendel, the leading specialist in suspended animation at the time allegedly experimented on prisoners of Nazi concentration camps, but taken under the protection of U.S. intelligence agencies (as well as many other morally questionable, but outstanding as a professional person). The experiment was conducted at a secret base in the Rocky Mountains.

Ten years, twenty, but no space cruisers did not appear. Moreover, the program and 'Apollo' did not leave a successor - the colonization of the Moon considered unnecessary. To distant planets flew only automatic station, and ( the old ' grandfather ' means chemical engines can achieve escape velocity and more precise mathematical calculation of the station led to the goal, using the gravitational fields of major planets. Astronauts in such interplanetary space vehicles were not.

And in March 2006 it was decided to terminate, the project ' Plutonium '. Failed astronauts woke. Out of hibernation was generally successful: of the twenty- eight people have woken up twenty-six. Two of the equipment failure occurred due to ' brain death ', an irreversible coma for a full body safety.

Twenty-six people have been a one-year rehabilitation course. The system of suspended animation by Peter Vendela prevents the formation of contractures, muscle atrophy, and other effects of long-term presence in the stillness, because of internal biological clocks of astronauts took only a little more than a day. Attention was paid not so much the physical component of many mental. At the same time the astronauts were acquainted with the realities of the XXI century.

In spring 2007, sixteen people have passed the test of suspended animation, have complete freedom of action and left the secret base. The remaining ten took the continuation of rehabilitation: six of them were prone to suicide, and four showed all the signs of aggression directed outward.

The money that the astronauts were waiting, were not all that and more: a bank account for all these years placed the amount equal to the salary of lieutenant of the sixties, which is compared to the current is very small. However, years of compound interest, and still did participants in the experiment with human resources.

Most of the astronauts ( the biological age of the oldest at the time of immersion in suspended animation does not exceed 24 years) decided to live again - to go to university, military schools, etc.. All of them received new documents and new biography, by analogy with the witness protection program, only this time the United States government protects them. The official version is no ' secret cosmonaut ' does not exist, people who supposedly enrolled in it were killed in Vietnam, and their names appear on the famous monument of Arlington Memorial. Therefore, the flimsy any of ' secret squad ' to sue the government, its in the best case upekut the clinic for the mentally ill, and at worst - not save 'the system of witness protection ', and it simply disappears.

P. Konstantinov ' interesting paper. Mysteries of civilization '№ July 2009 Mr..





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