, deputy commander of the cosmonaut corps , who has been in space three times, this is vyacheslav lvovich klimentov, chief curator, deputy director of the museum of cosmonautics, and this is vasily andreevich , vladimirsky, book reviewer, science fiction connoisseur, co-founder of the award. for the best science fiction work, the award is called new horizons. hello, the most important thing, it seems to me that space is there is something decorated, the root is the same as cosmetics, we forget this, but it is so, despite such a superficial, seemingly meaning of this word, cosmetics is a means of decoration, among the greeks chaos was an unadorned space, disordered, dark and not ... it’s clear, space was something that was decorated, ordered, categorized, divided into stars, comets, rays, probably there was some great meaning in this, and let’s start the conversation, of course, with the astronaut, of course, from the legendary oleg navitssky, how did it happen that you became an astronaut, and did literature play any role here, perhaps? for the bottom level, that’s literally in a season, over the s