and the feeling that the future of the country depended on them, on their work , buckwheat wrote korolyov. completed the bet on people , so he won, the slogan, personnel decide everything, sergei pavlovich korolyov learned this better than others, no one corresponded to this principle in practice as much as korolev, who highly valued professionals, not cogs, namely creative professionals , in this i see him genius uniqueness, i attended several meetings held by korolev, he invited the main specialists whom he knew well and young ones like me , for example, the question of fuel for future rockets was raised, kerosene or hydrogen, he passed everyone, including me, i couldn’t offer anything... smart different from what was said, but i stood up and expressed my opinion, only much later i realized that korolev taught everyone to say what they think, again, this is a lesson for many modern leaders, yes, probably already let's finalize, i can only say one thing, that yes, the collapse of the soviet union dealt, of course, a powerful blow to our astronautics, this cannot be denied. this is a fact