Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

Anyone who has spent any time in space will love it for the rest of their lives. I achieved my childhood dream of the sky.

If women can be railroad workers in Russia, why can't they fly in space?

Again the pressure pushes me in the chair, shuts my eyes. I notice the dark red tongues of the flame outside the windows. I'm trying to memorize, fix all the feelings, the peculiarities of this descending, to tell those, who will be conquering space after me.

I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century

I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.