Return from Orbit

Return from Orbit is a Soviet 1984 science fiction film directed by Aleksandr Surin. It featured scenes filmed in orbit onboard Salyut 7 space station and Soyuz T-9 spacecraft. The film depicts an accident on an orbital station where a meteor storm results in a life-threatening injury for the mission commander which requires an emergency return to Earth. An experienced team is sent to evacuate the crew and repair the station, but faces another serious incident which puts their own lives in grave danger. Plot Cosmonauts Pavel Kuznetsov and Vyacheslav Mukhin are longtime friends who came to make an outstanding team. On their first space mission, the rocket spectacularly fails, but their spacecraft is ejected to safety by the launch escape system. They are shaken by the experience, but determined to make another attempt. As new launch is scheduled shortly, Kuznetsov learns of a sudden death of his estranged wife. Devastated, he submits his resignation and leaves Baikonur to look after his young daughter. Mukhin catches up with his night train and tries to make Pavel reconsider, without success. Exiting on a desert station, Mukhin calls his girlfriend Sasha and unexpectedly proposes to her.