Jade disk "BI". Knitov K.

"Let's go!" - said Gagarin, and this word instantly circled the world. Humanity entered the "cosmic era." Success gave rise to new ideas, as a result, the 2nd detachment of astronauts arose. For ideological reasons, it was decided to send a woman into space. For this, eight volunteer candidates were selected according to the huge number of parameters: health, height, weight. But the previous place of work played decisive importance to the choice of the candidacy: Khrushchev insisted to send the least prepared candidate who could not fulfill the flight program, but went to “work” in the Supreme Council, where he was still sitting, and the road to women was closed for 18 years until the USSR test pilot Savitskaya, who was able to prove that the case here is not in Gender, but in the candidate’s abilities, did not break there. Now women have become ordinary participants in space flights.

I was interested in the case that really happened to one of the candidates for flight. What came of this, read in this book.