Slept only about 5 hours but felt rested. Apparently my body can mobilize when needed. We filmed the deployment of structural elements on the cargo ship after undocking with film and photo equipment and transmitted the television image to the ground. At the same time I managed to make notes and sketches. Spinning like a squirrel in a wheel.

Flying over the ocean. Looking at the water in the Sun’s glare. The structure of its surface is clearly visible — stripes, spirals in the form of dark lines.

Usually, when you look at water, you sense its depth by the tone of illumination fading into its interior. In the glare the water surface is matte-mirror-like, since only its top layer is illuminated, and the rays, reflecting rather than being absorbed, lose their light contrast, so everything on it becomes visible. Today we did a live broadcast to Vienna for participants of the International Conference on Peaceful Uses of Space. It came off well, I think. We showed our station, its layout, the equipment. At the end of the broadcast they addressed us with a greeting.

In the evening, Tolya and I did a film shoot of work on biological experiments. Now, before bed, we watched the cartoon “Nu, pogodi!” on the video recorder. Got a kick out of it. I must say the video recorder on board does much to brighten our lives. Tolya and I often, when the workday ends, prepare something tasty, turn on the video recordings — wrap our feet around the chair back so we don’t float up, and, just like at home in front of the TV, sit there relaxed, zoning out. Sometimes we stay up late, running the tapes, and the station just keeps spinning and spinning around the Earth.