Immersion in weightlessness (2018)

The decision to create a special simulator in the Star City to simulate weightlessness in water was made after Alexei Leonov's spacewalk.

An oil storage facility was used as a basis for the construction of the basin, its dimensions were suitable for the layout of the Salyut orbital station.

During its work, the hydrolaboratory has seen all the stations - Salyut, Mir, ISS, and even a fragment of the Buran cabin.

This is a truly unique facility, it was and remains the only one in the country for preparing astronauts for work in outer space.

Hydrocosmos is one of the serious tests for beginners.

Diving training is a mandatory subject for everyone.

There have been cases when it was here, in the pool, that the fate of a candidate for cosmonauts was decided, whether he would be able to work in outer space.

Like space, water does not forgive mistakes.

The film starred employees of the Hydro Laboratory: leading engineer Valery Nesmeyanov, head of the department Valery Kudryashov, diving specialist Alexander Kharlamov, Deputy head of the department Alexey Altunin, leading engineer Peter Kosatikov, head of the department Irina Galkina, leading engineer Ivan Verba, head of the department Dmitry Verba, doctor of diving medicine Alexander Krasnov, Deputy head of the CPC Department Viktor Ren, Lead engineer Maxim Zaitsev, cosmonauts Gennady Padalka, Mikhail Kornienko, Alexey Leonov, Fyodor Yurchikhin.