volkov sr., being a pilot instructor in kharkov, for many years he was burning with the idea of flyingarned about the new recruitment, he overcame all examinations, medical examinations, exams, becoming one of the nine lucky ones out of 2 thousand applicants, lieutenant general, the crew completed training in manual rendezvous and mooring with the orbital merplan complex. congratulations on completion. one more training, let's go, now a short analysis, many years of training, only 9 years later he went on his first flight to the solute 7 space station . when the rocket went, i'm flying away, even bigger joy, but then after 10 minutes weightlessness, but this is some kind of extraordinary feeling, i don’t know it, it’s probably called euphoria, it’s... laughter without cause, so i started, i laughed with happiness, with joy, that i was in weightlessness, these were the first impressions, i left when the portholes opened from the head fairing of the rocket, through this porthole, so i saw, just for the first time, it was the sunrise that i saw from the ship, of course, when the onboard o