How did the Russians usher in the Space Age?

When was the last time you went to an amusement park?

I honestly don't remember, the children were young, it must have been at least fifteen years. 

I loved amusement parks when I was young. There were bumper cars, Ferris wheels and many other fun things in amusement parks.

There used to be an amusement park in Gorky Park in Moscow. I know they removed it afterwards. Also in the park called VDNH, the National Achievements Exhibition Area. I think there is something like an amusement park there now. I haven't been to that park for a long time.

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In amusement parks, there are railway wagons, you know the ones that go up the hill and come down from the hill suddenly, in those wagons, one's stomach comes to one's mouth and one's insides jump. Most of them are shouting in these adrenaline-charged moments.

I have never jumped with a parachute, but I guess the same feelings probably occur in those who jump with a parachute.

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They call them astronauts, the Russians call them cosmonauts. Even the Chinese call them taikonauts? 

Yes, I'm talking about people who go into space. 

Can you imagine, you are in space, there is no gravity.

They must be inside out. How are you going to live in the vacuum of space with the constant feeling of falling off the railway carriages?

Moreover, you have to have such a constitution that you have to be exposed to an acceleration of 3G during the launch into space. 

Of course, 3G is not such a great acceleration, pilots using fighter jets can withstand acceleration up to 9G by wearing G-suits. 

Anyway, the aeroplanes were designed to withstand a maximum of 12G.

I wonder how much gravitational acceleration a human can withstand without these specially made pilot suits?

Still, even for astronauts, 3G is a pretty high pressure. After all, a lot of scientists are being sent to space, it must be quite difficult for a normal person to go into space under a pressure three times higher than that while living under 1G on earth.

Of course, what is more difficult is the zero-gravity environment after the climb. I guess staying in space for a long time without special training on this subject is not something that every man can handle.

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Even when travelling by plane, our ears get blocked. The reason for this is the pressure difference. For those who often encounter this problem, they recommend chewing gum during take-off and landing.  

I once read a news article that in order to fly long distances more quickly, it was being considered to build aeroplanes that could take off into outer space and land back to the desired location. 

I don't know what stage this programme is at.

But I don't think it would be a comfortable flight, because the pressure difference would be much higher than a normal flight.

Nevertheless, I think that in the future, maybe it will be possible to fly from Europe to America in a few hours in this way. Maybe travelling will be much shorter.

Perhaps with a technology that can adjust the pressure in the cabin, these flights can also be comfortable enough. After all, if a comfortable enough pressure environment can be created for a person in the cabin, why not, if desired, even if you go to outer space, since the pressure change is not too much, a comfortable enough comfort environment can be created for a normal person. 

Perhaps special flight suits can also be produced for such flights. Moreover, if these clothes are made in accordance with fashion, people can be made to buy such clothes themselves.

Aren't ski suits sold today? Just like ski clothes, people who want to travel intercontinental can buy their clothes in advance from somewhere.

Of course, I don't know if we will ever see this kind of travelling, but technology is advancing very quickly, maybe we will.

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I was saying that it's very difficult to live in the vacuum of space in a zero gravity environment. It must really feel like you're turning inside out.

In science fiction films, I see that they solve this problem by rotating the spacecraft with a certain rotation speed.

Look, it seems to me that this can also happen. However, I think the rotation speed should be very high. In this case, I think a person would get dizzy.

Can you imagine being in a spacecraft that is constantly rotating?

Although, we are constantly rotating on earth as well. Although our speed of rotation is not very high, our earth is also going round and round. We are also in a state of rotation.

I wonder what kind of effects this rotation has on human beings?

For myself, I can say that I sleep more comfortably when I put my head towards the west. I am not really aware of this, but I should say that I find myself turning a little in bed in the mornings at home.

The position of the house is not exactly east-west, who knows, maybe this is really the reason?

Now a film of Şener Şen and Kemal Sunal came to my mind. If you remember, when they were burying the coffin, they were arguing about whether the head of the deceased should be facing the qibla or not. What a ridiculous film, first of all, we don't bury the deceased with the coffin. It's just a comedy film. Naturally, no one pays attention to this detail during the film.

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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man to go into space on 12 April 1961 with the Vostok spacecraft.

With this achievement, Gagarin, in a sense, ushered in the space age.

They erected his statue in Moscow. Russians are proud of his achievement.

Previously, a dog named Layka (translated as "barking"!) had gone into space with the Sputnik 2 spacecraft launched on 3 November 1957, but Gagarin was a human being, and a journey into the unknown must be frightening. There is also the matter of going and not coming back.

Conspiracy theorists talk about those who were sent into space before Gagarin and did not return. I don't know if these rumours are true. Maybe it is really true!

After all, Gagarin is the first person who was sent into space and returned back!

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Thus, the space age officially began with Gagarin on 12 April 1961.

Today, mankind is planning trips to Mars. 

Every now and then I look at the camera images of the unmanned spacecraft sent to Mars. It is an empty, rocky place. Even our deserts seem much more loving to me.

I don't know, what are we doing in that place called Mars? Why isn't Earth enough for us?

There are so many beautiful places in the world, as long as we appreciate them.

It seems very strange to me to try to live in space with nausea. 

Nevertheless, we are in the space age, I think we need to participate in these studies somehow.

What did our elders say? Were we going to touch the moon and come back soon or what?

I wonder what stage we are at in these studies?

When will we build a four-lane road to the moon?

Don't we also have the right to have a dinner with a view of the world?

Come on, hurry up, we still have watermelon to cut. Watermelon goes well with cheese.

The price of watermelon has gone up in Moscow, it was 23 rubles a kilo until yesterday, now it's 29 rubles. Look, vodka is not bad with it. 

1 TL is 3.64 rubles today. In other words, the lira has appreciated, just a month ago the exchange rate was 3.44. 

In 2019? Look, 1 TL was over 13 rubles then. How much has our currency depreciated in four years, even against the ruble? Who will pay for this?

I was saying watermelon, today we can say that it is worth 8 liras per kilo in Moscow in Turkish money. In Migros, it was 11 lira 90 kurus. I just looked it up on the internet, it must be true. 

In other words, even in Moscow the price of watermelon is cheaper than in Turkey.

Mrs, could you get the cheese out of the fridge, let's eat some watermelon cheese. 

No, no, we don't need vodka with it, I don't like drinking vodka anyway, and it's not good at this time of the day. Watermelon and cheese is enough for us.

Love and respect to everyone from Moscow.