First day I slept as well as on Earth and felt genuinely rested. No headache. The ground woke us up, calling us on the audio alert. Tolya took the call, while I had a strong desire to do a good workout. I bolted the bicycle ergometer in place by hand, then flipped upside down like a monkey and worked with my legs (the ergometer is on our ceiling), and ran a bit on the KTF treadmill. The knee joints are stiffening up, and when you pedal, you feel them. The soles of my feet go slightly numb; when you run on the KTF it feels pleasant as the soles get worked. You want to run, to push yourself. We received the day’s program. Second day of reactivation — now, I think, life will settle in.

At 14:06 we launched a student satellite from the Moscow Aviation Institute. The satellite bears the emblems of all the countries participating in the Intercosmos program; it will be used as an amateur radio relay to transmit greeting telegrams to the delegates of the 19th Komsomol Congress. In the TV report, I said that Salyut-7 had become a branch of Baikonur in near-Earth orbit. And it’s gratifying that just 25 years after the launch of our first Earth satellite — which was an achievement of all humanity — we’ve already arrived at student satellites, and this is in our country, which is very symbolic, since the life of society is determined by what its young people live for, what their goals are, and what they accomplish. I watched through the left airlock as the satellite departed along the port side.

A small airplane — more precisely, a glider — receding toward the horizon. Above, the velvet blackness of space, and the satellite against the blue halo of the Earth’s atmosphere. Two lateral antennas deployed, with antenna coils on their tips, like drop tanks. The satellite’s hexagonal body glinted in the sunlight with the tiny sparkles of its photovoltaic cells — solar panels. Beautiful!

We’re flying at an altitude of 350 km. Today Tolya and I looked out the porthole and said: “For the sake of all of this, you can prepare on Earth for however many years. Nothing is too much to give up, to see and feel our Earth like this.” Going to sleep — it’s late, and tomorrow is an early start with a full schedule. The time allotted for post-lunch rest and exercise has been cut. But today we slept magnificently and feel as good as on Earth. We’ve all adapted.