The two men meet for the first time in a long time, and the former admits that he's changed a lot since he left the Russian Federation a year ago. He wants to take his place on the next lunar mission, and he wants to see his brother, Edgar, too. The crowd is cheering him on, and they tease him about his biceps, which he says are harder than his shoulders. He tells them that he doesn't think he'll be able to visit the family since he has been away from Russia for so long. The director of the Russian space agency, Gazzaev, has returned, and is stricter than the former director, who left for family reasons. He says that if Edgar wants to become a cosmonaut in Russia, he must stay away from the city of Tolstoysk, where the family lives.