"14 minutes until start" (), also known as "i believe, my friends" () is a popular soviet and russian mass song composed in 1960 by oscar feltsman, to lyrics by vladimir voinovich. the song was written as an unofficial anthem for the soviet space program, and became a popular fixture of space race era soviet propaganda, being printed several times in pravda and even being sung in space by cosmonauts andriyan nikolayev and pavel popovich during the vostok-3 mission