November, and we’re still flying. In the morning we started repairing Korund, then launched it. It ran for 178 minutes instead of 300, but the specialists are pleased, saying everything went well. They finally found the error: it turns out the gain coefficients in the thermoelements had been selected based on estimates of how the process would proceed on Earth, but in space they turned out to be different, and heating occurred faster than the control programs could keep up with. The process diverged, and that’s why the furnace shut down automatically. Well then, now we’ll input new coefficients and grow crystals.

We tested the thermal control system circuits and reported the results; the specialists are pleased. It turns out that moisture condensation in the hydraulic blocks is preventing the switchover to backup pumps.

Everything seems fine, but here’s an annoyance — right before the holiday, as if on purpose, the video recorder failed. We’re trying to repair it, but the difficulty is that there are no descriptions or schematics, and we’ve never dealt with this kind of equipment before.

We did a television report on the repair work; I think it turned out well. Before that, we stripped down the station, photographed the interior panels, and showed its innards through the skeleton of the structural frame.

We were told that a press conference is planned for tomorrow from the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics, the one beneath the monument to K.E. Tsiolkovsky at VDNKh. Journalists from radio, television, and newspapers will participate. There will also be visitors at the museum.