I felt fine after 24 hours and asked the state commission to prolong my stay in space to three days. And I carried out the entire schedule. Could I have done that if I had been half-dead?
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
After I had gone through this matter with the President I told him of my condition of health and that my doctors felt that I must take a complete rest and that I thought that that meant leaving the Department finally in a short time.
They managed to find time... to tell me that there was no chance of my being accepted for service and that really I should be surprised to still be alive.
You cannot schedule death.
Of course, you'll have to meet the physical and psychological demands. A space walk takes a lot of energy.
People will burn through a show in two or three days, and then you're left feeling empty for 51 weeks.
Perhaps one day I will go into space.
If I was on the air and was just kind of a plain-vanilla personality that took the safe road and the safe way trying to please all of the people all of the time, I'd been gone in two weeks.
Now, I've never flown in space; but the folks who have say that on landing day, you know, you've just spent maybe a week and a half, sometimes two weeks in orbit and you're used to the things happening slowly in space.
I could have gone on flying through space forever.
Ah, you may leave here, for four days in space, but when you return, it's the same old place.