About the book: 1988 / ... A severe wound seemed to forever chain the young front-line security officer to his bed. But willpower and courage turned out to be stronger than the illness: in 1947 he went to work at the design bureau of S.P. Korolev. Here he had the opportunity to become the leading designer of the legendary Vostok spacecraft. In his book, laureate of the Lenin and State Prizes of the USSR O. G. Ivanovsky talks about the heroic events of the Great Patriotic War, in which he was a participant, about workers, engineers, scientists, whose fates are a clear confirmation of the enormous capabilities of man in our country. “This book is about my generation. About the people who defended the independence of our Motherland in a fierce battle against fascism, who revived the country from ashes and ruins, who sent their messenger into outer space - the first man on the planet; about those who today are doing the most important thing for the country, for all humanity - fighting for happiness, for peace, for life on Earth. O.G. Ivanovsky." Addressed to a wide range of readers.