In the early 70s of the last century the Soviet astronautics has begun to hand over positions gradually: the race for the Moon is irrevocably lost, Gagarin and Sergey Korolev has died. However successful implementation of programs of the piloted flights "Union Salute", one of the first international space projects "Venus — Galley's Comet" (Vega) which soul was Sagdeev have returned to the USSR the status of the leading spacefaring nation.