A sunny morning; the crew doctor woke us. The three of us ran out for exercises; the TV crew filmed it. There’s a certain inner tension about Tolya. He’s a complicated person, and I’m no simple one either. The hardest thing is that some of our bad traits overlap: if something isn’t to my liking, it immediately shows in my mood, and I withdraw. But I think all of that will pass once the real work together begins.

In the evening, by a bonfire, we talked with Tikhomirov, who hosts a TV program about space, for a television segment. We invited our instructor Viktor, the crew doctor, and the Center’s psychologist. We remembered the guys who climbed Everest, their courageous, deeply human feat. We congratulated them through the upcoming broadcast. We talked about how soon we too would have to make our own ascent, to our own summit, and stay there and work for half a year, maybe longer. Tikhomirov suddenly asked: “If you were told right now that you wouldn’t fly, what would you say?” I said that the work wouldn’t be wasted in any case. If not today, then tomorrow there’ll be a flight. Then the guys asked me to recite poetry. In conversation I recalled my old idea — creating a spacecraft called “Leninsky Komsomol” with a scientific program developed by young people. In the evening, on a walk, I talked with the psychologist Slava — he says that by all their assessments our crew turned out well. We’ll see.

We had a pleasant navigation session, working with the SNO-T and S-2 sextants — they’re needed for determining the geographic coordinates of an observed object.

Today a correction of the station’s orbit was carried out; they gave it a velocity increment of 23 m/s. The reference orbit was formed: altitude 346 by 366 km. Everything is normal — the path is clear for the transport ship’s launch, and the station is waiting for us. I’m reading the “Orbital Flight” manual, and I still need to review “Reactivation” — I can’t keep up. Tomorrow is the KFO — the clinical-physiological examination; many doctors have arrived from the Training Center.