A film about the use of technologies in the space industry in the national economy. 1st part. Newsreels: Baikonur cosmodrome; launches of spaceships from the launch site of the cosmodrome; the air-spacecraft "Buran" in flight; unmanned landing of the "Buran" spacecraft in "airplane" mode; designer S.P. Korolev in the audience; an astronaut and a cameraman in zero gravity in the cabin of the ship; pilot-cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin in a spacesuit in the bus. Film director V. Ivanov, script writer M. F. Rebrov and cameraman V. Afanasyev talking. Airport waiting room. Passengers read, sleep, descend the stairs. Light board with information about air flights. Aircraft on the airfield. Testing the operation of a remotely controlled bulldozer. Archive storage; on safes there are labels with the inscriptions: "Luna", "Venus", "Mars", "Luna-15" and others. Museum of Scientific and Production Association Technomash. Director of the association V. Bulavkin in the museum hall. Samples of chandeliers, sconces, lamps, climbing equipment made at the Lavochkin Research and Production Association. Production shops of the Scientific Research Institute of Automatic Instrumentation. Assembly of medical equipment in the workshop. Medical devices in the operating room. Doctors at the operating table. 2nd part. Communication session at the Flight Control Center. Monitor screens. Newsreel footage: astronauts in zero gravity move in the cabin of the ship; astronauts work at a crystal growing facility; astronauts after landing. General Designer of the Salyut design bureau D. Polukhin talks with the film's director V. Ivanov. Posters in D. Polunin's office, which depict launch vehicles, a diagram of power supply in the heating system, a livestock complex. An automatic line for the production of bread sticks, manufactured by the specialists of the Salyut design bureau. "Lunokhod" on the monitor screen. Navigation system "Navstar" in the car. Travel along the street of Delhi. The artist S.N. Roerich is walking along the city street, talking with the director V. Ivanov. Indian experts are monitoring the movement of natural science satellites on monitors. Satellite "Cosmos-1500". Icebreaker "Siberia" on the way. Installation of the space station "Almaz" in the shop. Surface of the Earth from space. The heads of the research and production association "Krasnaya Zvezda" V. Serbin and G. Gryaznov in the shop for a conversation. Power plant - an autonomous thermal power plant in the workshop. Solar battery of the satellite "Meteor". Computing center employees at work. Exhibition halls of the international space exhibition.