The book tells about the life and work of the patriarch of Soviet rocket and space technology, chief designer Sergei Pavlovich Korolev.

Father and mother. Separation from father. At my grandmother's in Nizhyn.

Passion for the sky. You have to figure it out with your own mind. I want to have a living business.

I am sent to study. Rely only on yourself. To Moscow forever.

Study at Moscow Higher Technical School. Today a glider, tomorrow an airplane. Reading Tsiolkovsky. Build rockets, fly them.

I want to be with you. Abbreviated as GIRD. All for it. We must unite.

Forward, just forward! After the first step there will be a second. Unreasonable removal.

Preference for winged ones. Joys and sorrows. They believed the slander.

Evacuation. Bend, but don't break. Time doesn't wait. In a new place.

Aviation and the front. Home. Return to rockets. Chief designer.

All thoughts are for defense. To be honest before the people, In the ranks of the Bolshevik Party. It won't be up to us.

Lookers ahead. Those days at Baikonur. Conquering space.

Ardent science enthusiast. The first great step. The test site became a cosmodrome. The feat and its falsifiers.

A question of questions. Spaceship or ship? Is this really possible? Inspired by the party.

Opinions differed. Back to the Moon. Caring for people. You have chosen a difficult path.

Space needs specialists. No, you can't wait. Bridge "Earth - Venus". Each of you will be the first.

Gagarin flies first. Parting words before the start. Night of the Chief Designer. The mood is normal, high.

A real Russian hero. Everything in detail . A great victory of the mind.

National meeting. Three orbits or seventeen? Space day makes itself felt.

We need to accumulate experience. .

For engineers to fly. For the first time. The share of risk does not give rest.

To the “Soyuz” you live up to our hopes. In the unstoppable rapid movement. hearts.