There is a space rescue base in low-Earth orbit. Denis Bekasin, a recent graduate of a space university, where he ended up, one might say, by accident, recalls his first steps in space, his “baptism of fire,” when he and his comrades successfully rescued the crew of a space “truck” from a difficult situation. The rescue team worked no less successfully on Mars. And then in outer space, where people could die. And the rescuers themselves were on the verge of death. But Denis and his friends were rescued by their most important talisman...