About the book: 2021 / All names and events are fictitious. Any coincidence is accidental. It's normal everyday life at the ISS station. Monday. The European cargo ship ATV-5 is approaching the ISS and docking is about to begin. Earth informs the crew that the docking will be carried out without their participation. There are currently only two crew members on the ISS: the commander, cosmonaut Alexander Gromov, and astronaut Michael Thornton. Earth, in fits and starts, gets in touch. The MCC controller reports that a stream of high-energy particles is flying from the Sun to the Earth, capable of destroying the equipment at the station and killing the crew. There's almost no time. Communication with the Earth works worse and worse, and then stops altogether. The cargo ship loses contact with the control center and goes into autonomous docking mode. Will the crew be able to save the station and themselves in the absence of communication with the Earth, the station's mothballing that has begun, and a truck approaching it that has lost contact with the Earth? Only knowledge and preparation for any emergency situations, as well as ingenuity, dexterity, mutual assistance and heroism will help them..