The usual heroes of space, whom we know from official portraits and reports, appear in this book in a completely different form. Why did the psychological selection of astronauts for a flight to Mars end in a fight, how do they train on corpses at NASA, and why do they pour soup into a spacesuit? The author gives sensitive and truthful answers to all these scandalous questions, based on numerous interviews with cosmonauts and astronauts. Those who want to know what space is from the back door will find a lot of interesting information in this book.