The film is dedicated to the development of astronautics in the Soviet Union.
The film includes: filming in space made cosmonauts G. Dobrowolski, Patsaeva V., V. Volkov.
The film shows: Experiments on the "Orbit" (3.4 parts); production processes, enterprises aerospace industry; Test space station "Salyut" (2, 3 parts); filming space flight aboard the "Soyuz-4" with cosmonaut VA Shatalov (1, 4 parts), space flight aboard the "Soyuz-5" with astronaut BV Volynov (1, 4 parts), space flight aboard the "Soyuz-11" with a crew of Dobrovolsky, Volkov and Patsaeva (5, 6 parts).
Personnel chronicles. 1960-70-ies.
AS Elisha on a city street, checks of computing device on board the space station "Salyut", present at the launch site before the start of spacecraft "Soyuz-10" (1, 2, 4 parts).
AG Nikolayev on a city street Star during landing spacecraft "Soyuz-9" in the MCC during communication with the spacecraft "Soyuz-11" (1.6 parts). 1970-1971 year.
Astronauts NN Rukavishnikov and VA Shatalov test equipment for the space station "Salyut".
VA Shatalov involved in discussions with U.S. experts on the possibility of establishing joint space projects (2-4 parts).
PART ONE
House-Museum VI Tsiolkovsky in Kaluga.
Moscow, Red Square, St.
Basil's Cathedral, Spasskaya Tower, Lenin's Mausoleum.
Personnel chronicles.
Without date.
Students in geography class.
Sun over the water.
Monument of the Arctic at the seaside.
Wave one of the northern seas.
Blizzard.
Cross on the grave VI Bering.
Polar station on a drifting ice floe, polar eliminate emergency.
Airplane on the airfield.
Passengers on the ladder climb into the plane.
Foreign scientists are exploring the seabed.
Rocket takes off.
The satellite separated from the rocket.
February 1934.
Personnel chronicles the expedition on the steamer "Chelyuskin": gunpowder in the ice, sinking, the crew and passengers on the ice. 1960.
Cosmonauts Gagarin, EV Khrunov, V.M.Komarov, VF Bykovskii Star on a city street.
April 12, 1961.
Launching a spacecraft "Vostok-1" in the suit Gagarin in the cabin.
France, Paris, 1970.
Italian manned aircraft crash pilot Danatti in the skies above Le Bourget airfield during the work of the World Aviation Space Salon.
Moscow, 1971.
Funeral pilot-cosmonauts GT Dobrovolsky, VN Volkov, VI Patsaeva killed during a landing spacecraft "Soyuz-11".
PART TWO
Personnel chronicles.
Without date.
Simulator station "Salyut", which conducted experiments for testing life-support systems of astronauts.
Testers come after the completion of one of the experiments.
Shop space flight company, making uniforms for the astronauts.
Slide load costume.
PART THREE
Personnel chronicles.
Moscow region, Star [1970].
Director Robert Givrud NASA (USA) discusses with Soviet specialists and astronauts possibility of establishing joint space projects, examines simulator station "Salyut".
PART FOUR
Personnel chronicles.
Without date.
Undocking satellite "Cosmos-186" and "Cosmos-188".
Aircraft refueling in the air.
Coupling boxcars on a siding railway station. 1971.
Preparing and launching an unmanned orbital station "Salyut".
Flight "Soyuz-10" 22.04-24.04.1971 year.
The launch: ship in orbit, docked with the station "Salyut".
PART FIVE
Delivery of the Baikonur rocket.
PART SIX
June 19, 1970.
Crew members of space ship "Soyuz-9" AG Nikolayev and VI Sevastiyanov during landing.
Key words
Astronautics.
International scientific relations.
International economic relations.