and it can be calculated.
If only we could calculate everything.
There're moments when
one has to assume responsibility.
Like Pavel.
That's his music.
He wrote it
a year before the expedition.
You know, Sasha has always
loved one woman,
but she didn't love him.
That's the story.
27th day of flight.
- A meteor stream's approaching again.
- I turned on the system of warning.
- Where're your friends? — They'll
come. They know we expect them.
Perhaps they'll help us
fix the computer.
We must use their knowledge
and get outside the Galaxy.
That's too far-fetched! The nearest
Galaxy is 55,000 light-years away.
I remember it. Yet I believe
that Man will fly there.
We'll know beforehand
that we're never to return.
Generations will be
changing on the ship.
Hundreds of years will pass before
the news of that victory reaches Earth.
And there will be a lot of
sadness in it.
And yet I'm volunteering
for that expedition.
Why did you believe so strongly
in the encounter with the broco?
I refreshed in my memory all
the expeditions of the perished ships.
The Italian navigator had gone
deeper into the Loop than the others.
Therefore, he was supposed
to be the first to perish.
But he was the only one to survive.
Right!
I've made calculations of the Loop's
effect on man. Let me bring them.
You're late again?
- A meteor stream is approaching.
- Turn the protection on.
Failure of the protection.
- Close the portholes.
- Yes.
Danger.
What happened?
A meteorite got into the blister, any
second the cosmos may break in here.
Mitya!
Mitya!
To the control room!
Close the blister's shutter!
- Mitya!
- What? Is it blocked?
Yes.
We must not close the door.
We have to go out into the corridor.
Then our comrades will die.
I must save Tamarkin.
Open the door.
Don't do it, pal.
Oh, damn it!
- What? What?
- The shutter won't close.
Masha! August! Captain!
Just a few seconds left.
Failure of block 8. What do you
think has happened to it?
Hard to tell. It was connected
to Mitya's cabin.
- Put on the block's feed.
- Yes!
Masha! August! Captain!
Just a few seconds left.
Block 8 contains my calculations
on the Leonardo asteroid.
Its spectral analysis is identical
to Chain A and the disc.
Probably it's the T-matter
that Ambartsumyan was looking for.
I discovered on the asteroid
the traces of intelligent life.
Possibly, it's a part of
the perished Phaethon planet.
Farewell, my dear friends.
Tell Yulya... I'm short of breath!
A powerful radiation in the ship.
The crew is called to
the control module.
We've come to you with peace.
Look.
When your comrade got in trouble,
we managed to save him.
Soon you all will go home.
Prepare the Earth for contact
with Orion's Loop.
Cameramen
V. BREGEDA, M. NARODITSKY
Combination shooting by
Kiev Studio of
Popular Science Films
Odessa Film Studio
THE END