Desert survival training with cosmonauts

The astronauts

We are in three inside of the dwarfish spatial capsule of 3,5 meters cubes and of 2 meters diameter. Here, in the heart of the Kazakistan, we owe for two days to withstand in the swelter having only 1 liter water each and a small survival kit: machete, torchlight, gun rocket launcher, hooks for fishing and a small ration of the provisions.

With fatigue we go out of the capsule dressed with bulky diving-suits. We cut a piece of the enormous parachute of 1.000 m.kws and we fix to the seats gotten off by the capsule.

The earth it's broken by the sun. The warm one seems us unbearable, the sun don't give up. The lips are chapped, the arid throat, the temples pulsate. In front of the eyes the flames appear, the thirst increases creazily .

Finished the mission we can finally drink water. Lot's of water.

JACEK PALKIEWICZ