Got up at 11, slept excellently. Day off. But what kind of day off? We’re cleaning up the station. If there were a depressurization or fire right now, there’d be no escape. All around us are absorbers, regenerators, equipment modules, bags, instruments, and so on. By evening we managed to stow at least some of it behind panels; the station got noticeably brighter.

I continue filming the Earth with the Niva video recorder. In the evening we met with our families. Lyusya is very agitated about something. I didn’t like how Vitalik was — he doesn’t know what to tell his father; I have to drag him into conversation. Stiff. Lyusya, bless her — at the end of the session she broke into song: “Time for the road, the road, the long, long road we go.” The day is ending; 5 days left until landing. Hard to wait, because there’s no interesting work.