Pilots and elektronno-calculating machines had to work much before planetolet has been deduced on a so-called direct
exchange and took a direct direction to a meeting point. For this purpose Ermakov and Michael Antonovich on the Earth
have calculated any ` ` a devil curve ", a three-dimensional spiral, following on which planetolet extinguished inertia orbital
and a rotary motion of the Earth and left in a plane of an orbit of Venus. Krutikov after has told that electronic kursovychislitel
` ` Hiusa" has appeared not absolutely at position height. We - Jurkovsky, Dauge and I - sat at this time in a wardroom and
listened to little pushes. But amortisation devices of armchairs - wonderful, and further feeling of an easy nausea have not
gone my sufferings. Then I have made a dinner. At us plentiful stocks of ready dinners in thermocanned food, but are and ` `
live "meat in the plastic tanks, sterilised by gamma beams, and fair quantity of vegetables and fruit. I have decided to flash.
All praised. But Jurkovsky has told: ` ` it is good that we have now, at least, a decent cook ", - and I have become angry.
Ermakov, however, has noticed Jurkovsky: ` ` But to yours strjapne, Vladimir Sergeevich, the approach is possible only with
navetrennoj the parties".
` ` Tried? "- with curiosity has asked Dauge.
` ` Krajuhin has warned ".
To put it briefly, I should go in cooks till the end of flight. With pleasure! But ` ` the fop "it is insulting laughs. Eventually, to spit
to me on the hussar-single! However all is trifles. There are three disturbing circumstances: the first - a meeting with a
meteorite, the second - a kind on space and the third - the most important thing - conversation with Ermakovym. I will tell
about all one after another.
To us not so has carried, as to Ljahovu during test flight.
Very soon after start ` ` Hius "has met a meteorite. Certainly, if not Ermakov, anybody from us would not notice it. Simply
suddenly the floor has failed underfoot and heart, as has stood during descent to the high-speed lift. It appears, the space
around ` ` Hiusa" is continuously probed by an ultrashort-wave locator. If in dangerous affinity there is a meteorite, the
computing device on the reflected impulses automatically defines its trajectory and speed, compares this data with speed
and a way planetoleta and submits corresponding signals on management. Absolutely automatically planetolet either slows
down, or accelerates movement and passes a meteorite before itself or overtakes it.