Though I didn’t sleep much, I slept well — deep sleep. Woke up and saw Sasha Ivanchenkov floating out of the darkness above me. Before bed we always turn off the lights and close the window covers so the Sun won’t shine in, since during our sleep many days and nights pass outside.

We greeted each other. I decided to get up early too, since water needs to be heated, food fetched from the pantry and placed in the food warmers. After all, breakfast is for five people now, not two. That’s not so simple here, because you can only heat half a liter of water at a time, and you can’t fit everyone’s food in the warmers at once. I floated to the pantry boxes, stuffed food inside my jumpsuit for everyone — it’s more convenient that way, nothing flies away. Then floated to the life-support system control panel to check the station’s atmosphere. I see Volodya Dzhanibekov floating up behind me — also awake — and he started helping me take atmosphere readings in different compartment zones for the logbook. The others woke up and got up too.

After breakfast we continued the “Echography” and “Poza” experiments. The crew began preparing the “Piramig” and PSN equipment for work.

During the day we gave a radio interview. I showed Jean the “Delta” computer’s mode 80 for calculating coordinates of observed objects on Earth. He was extremely impressed by our capabilities.

He also really liked the “Stroka” printer unit of the “Delta” system in ballistic information mode, when we get printouts or displays of comm session start and end times, shadow entry and exit, next orbit, its number, and much more.

We sense the guests watching how we work and interact, and this somewhat disrupts the established rhythm of life.

After the workday we started signing envelopes for Earth and stamping them — the French stamp with the star-boy emblem and ours, “Aboard Station Salyut-7.”

I read letters from our crew physician and Grigory Grigoryevich — useful letters.