The pilot-cosmonaut Beregovoy spent four days in orbit, but this took a whole life - a large, purposeful, human life saturated to the brim with struggle and difficulties. All of it was, as it were, pre-launch preparation. And his youthful years in the flying club, and the front, and sixteen years of work as a test pilot - any of these periods somehow helped him to accumulate that experience, then professional skill and those qualities of character that are necessary for an astronaut. Georgy Timofeevich Beregovoy recalls his difficult, but direct and clear life path in this book.