Eto kniga o zhizni, nauchnykh issledovaniyakh, innovatsiyakh izvestnogo doktora tekhnicheskikh nauk, professora Aleksandra Aleksanrovicha Bolonkina. On rabotal v sovetskoy aviatsionnoy, raketnoy i kosmicheskoy promyshlennosti i prepodaval v glavnykh moskovskikh vysshikh uchebnykh zavedeniyakh (MAI, MATI, MVTU) byvshego SSSR. V 1972g professor Bolonkin byl arestovan KGB i osuzhden za chtenie proizvedeniy akademika A.D. Sakharova, pisatelya A.I. Solzhenitsyna i drugoy zapreshchennoy politicheskoy literatury o svobode i demokratii. On provel 15 let v sovetskikh tyur'makh, kontslageryakh i ssylke, podvergalsya pytkam, istyazaniyam, izdevatel'stvam, katorzhnomu trudu. Bolee goda ego derzhali razdetogo v spetsial'noy kholodnoy kamere na funte chernogo khleba i vode i tri goda vo vnutrilagernoy tyur'me osobogo rezhima. V 1988g v svyazi s nachalom perestroyki v SSSR on byl vydavlen za granitsu. V SShA Bolonkin rabotal v NASA, na bazakh Voenno-Vozdushnykh Sil SShA, prepodaval v amerikanskikh universitetakh. On avtor bolee 180 knig i nauchnykh statey i 17 izobreteniy.