now, i will take some time to explain who is academician chertok. in an extraordinary century, he lived an extraordinary life. he participated in many important technological milestones, including sputnik and launching the world's first space voyagers. chertok, for a long time, worked as a deputy chief designer of soviet spacecraft. he was one of the senior designers over the soviet union's -- in charge of the soviet union's growing achievement in space power. now, he is 98 years old, anddhe is -- works as an adviser to the chief designer of rockets space corp. this is the book, prepared by more than 40 years of academician chertok. i was author of six chapters. it was published two weeks ago, and i'm absolutely sure that this is the first copy in the united states. i should like to give it as a present to the library of the canon institute. >> thank you very much. >> starting with these preliminaries, let's get right to the plan. let me now pass to the program of the long-term forecast. the first organization has ever risen almost all at once. some