Woke up at 3 PM. I’ve never slept that long, not at home and certainly not in space. The accumulated fatigue is coming out in sleep. Good that the body compensates.

We got up and started putting equipment in order. Removed “Piramig,” which had been installed on the MKF window during the visiting expedition, then reassembled and reinstalled the MKF in its place. Ran its test — all normal.

At 5 PM we had a television meeting with the wives. Wonderful women — laughing, telling silly stories. Felt good. They looked great. In the next comm session at 17:00 we met with Eldar Alexandrovich Ryazanov. We chatted merrily about cinema; he told us he’s making a new film, “A Railway Station for Two,” with Lyudmila Gurchenko. We invited her to a future meeting with us.

Then I asked about the actor from the film “The Lads.” I called him Vasilyev. Ryazanov said he unfortunately couldn’t remember who I meant. Someone at TsUP prompted — not Vasilyev, but Mikhailov. Then he said that’s a good actor, currently quite popular. I liked him in that film too.

In the evening we talked with Savchenko about the experiments. He said the astrophysics films had been delivered to Moscow and they’re waiting for a French specialist to develop them. He asked us to search for a PSN film roll that Volodya Dzhanibekov had lost on the station. Up here that’s not hard — anything unfastened floats away on the air currents, though which current is unknown, since the air in the station moves along the habitable zone of the work compartment toward the filters for removing harmful substances and dust on its back wall, then returns through the instrument zone behind the side panels, where fans blow it past the equipment for cooling, on to the air regeneration and CO2 removal systems, and through the condensation dryers back into the habitable zone, completing the fresh-air circulation cycle.

In the evening we listened to the news, then battled the water heater and dispenser — the tap is leaking, hot water scalding our hands. Apparently the metal pairing for the valve body and seat was poorly chosen. With frequent use the valve scores the seat, making it hard to turn and breaking the seal. Tomorrow we’ll replace it.