Valentin Lebedev
Diary of a Cosmonaut

Woke up and immediately remembered the issues with my blood test. What will happen today? Will they make me give blood again or not? We’re studying all day, constantly in contact with specialists. In the morning after breakfast — the flight program, then film and photography, then weightlessness preparation, lunch. After lunch: flight documentation and the dentist — he coated our teeth with lacquer, did rinses against staphylococcus. Then sessions on emergency evacuation of the station, tennis, dinner, more flight documentation. It’s now one in the morning local time; I just came from a massage and want to sleep. I’ve already stopped going to the cinema.

Today I talked to Lyusenka. I told her my mood is as if on the 13th I’m finishing work here and going home. She says: “Papul, we’ve already hung out the flags, invited people over, we’re already celebrating, so you’d better fly” (joking, my dear). She says I keep appearing in her dreams with a gloomy face. Everything is fine at home. There was a medical conference on the KFO results — no issues with us. That’s it, lights out.