This story happened to cosmonaut Alexander Ivanovich Lazutkin. He spent 184 days in orbit as part of an expedition to the Soviet-Russian station Mir in 1997. It was probably the most difficult, the most “abnormal” flight in the history of manned cosmonautics. Alexander Ivanovich dreams of that flight every night. Non-standard catastrophic situations are returning today, forcing us to reflect, re-read diaries, and relive everything anew. But the main thing is not the technical and not the "action" aspects of these situations, but the psychology of a person overcoming all these problems, since another "emergency situation" of this flight is the struggle with oneself, the search for one's strengths, the limits of internal reserves.