Wings 12.04.2003 (2003)

Secrets of Russian Space.

Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

The presenter in a space suit talks about the Russian space program.

The presenter in the centrifuge cabin of the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center.

A red signal lamp with the inscription "Experiment in progress".

The operator gives the command.

The centrifuge cabin closes.

The presenter talks about overloads, shows the sensors on his hands, says "Let's go".

The operator starts the centrifuge.

The centrifuge starts spinning.

The presenter talks about his feelings.

View of planet Earth from the porthole of the space station.

Chronicle: Gagarin Yuri gives a speech before the flight.

The presenter in a space suit talks about Gagarin's flight.

Background information: Gagarin Yuri, spacecraft "Vostok".

Chronicle: The Vostok spacecraft takes off, television monitors with the face of cosmonaut Gagarin, operators in white coats at the flight center, a television broadcast of Gagarin's face, the earth rotating in the porthole, an operator looking at the instruments and monitors, operators in white coats near the instruments, the capsule of the descent module lying on the ground, Gagarin smiling, newspapers with photographs of the first cosmonaut Gagarin, people reading newspapers, a crowd of people in front of a TV on the street watching a program about Gagarin's flight, happy people walking down the street with photographs of Gagarin.

The presenter in a space suit talks about the work of the Yu. A. Gagarin Cosmonaut Center.

Chronicle: The faces of the cosmonauts during training in the centrifuge, the centrifuge rotating with the cosmonaut, cosmonaut Gagarin in a helmet.

Yuri Gidzenko talks about the preparation of the cosmonaut and the cosmonaut's suit for the descent to the earth.

The centrifuge rotates.

The presenter talks about the overloads he experiences in the centrifuge cabin.

The operator talks about the centrifuge operation.

Background information: the presenter's blood pressure and pulse.

The presenter's face on the centrifuge control panel monitor.

Background information: 4.5G centrifuge, Japanese video camera goes out, unable to withstand the overload.

The presenter talks about the space cannon.

Background information: Cannon for active defense of orbital manned stations, photo of the cannon.

Background information: 1951, Who was the first in space?

The first dog-cosmonauts.

The presenter talks about the health, self-control, and erudition of astronauts.

Chronicle: Mission Control Center employees at monitors, a man in headphones speaks into a microphone, the Salyut-7 station in orbit, Mission Control Center employees at a meeting, the station's docking unit, the Mission Control Center hall, a top view of the employees at work.

Background information: Launch of Soyuz-13. Chronicle: The rocket takes off from the launch pad, the spacecraft approaches the station, cosmonauts Vladimir Dzhanibekov and Viktor Savinykh at the Salyut-7 station, cosmonauts in spacesuits work in airless space.

Background information: 1968, Who was the first to see the far side of the Moon?

Soviet turtles at the Zond-5 station.

Yuri Gidzenko talks about the cosmonauts and crews of the Soyuz TM-31 and Soyuz TM-34 spacecraft.

Background information: ISS. Chronicle of the Great Patriotic War: The takeoff of the V-2 rocket, burning houses in London, Hitler and the generals looking at a map, a drawing of the V-2 rocket, a photograph of Wernher von Braun.

Background information: Braun Wernher von, chronicle.

Chronicle: Braun Wernher von on the rocket launch pad in the USA, the rocket takes off.

Background information: The launch vehicle that delivered people to the Moon - Saturn-5. Chronicle: Braun Wernher von at a meeting with engineers, liftoff of the Saturn-5 rocket, Soviet Lunokhod, US President Kennedy, Khrushchev Nikita, Soviet spaceships, US President Kennedy on the podium, Khrushchev Nikita waving his hand, Korolev Sergei in the elevator, USSR postage stamps dedicated to space, documents marked as especially important.

Background information: The USSR Lunar Program.

Chronicle: Drawings of the N1 space launch vehicle, the Proton K rocket at Baikonur, liftoff of the launch vehicle, Brezhnev L.I. delivers a speech at the congress.

The presenter in the centrifuge cabin of the CCU talks about a broken video camera.

An employee of the CCU speaks into the microphone.

The presenter talks about the overloads he experiences in the centrifuge cabin.

The centrifuge is spinning.

The centrifuge control panel.

A computer monitor.

Sergei Korolev sits on a chair.

Aerial photography of the rocket carrier transportation to the launch pad.

Background information: The N-1 launch vehicle, unsuccessful rocket launches.

The Energia rocket on the launch pad.

The launch of the Energia rocket.

The wheels of the lunar rover, the lunar rover overcomes obstacles.

Soviet pennants with the USSR coat of arms on the Moon.

View of planet Earth from the station's porthole.

Equipment and locator on board the station.

View of the earth's landscape from the space station.

An example of computer processing of a photograph of objects.

Igor Marinin talks about the military space station Salyut.

Photographs of cities of the world from space.

Background information: The Mars-1 project, the Aelita project (MK-700).

Mikhail Budarev talks about the flight to Mars.

The centrifuge is spinning.

The recorder tape with a graph.

The presenter talks about the overloads he experiences in the centrifuge cabin.

The operator at the centrifuge control panel.

The presenter rides out of the centrifuge cabin in a chair.

The presenter says goodbye to the audience.