The cosmonaut Vladimir Alekseevich Soloviev recalls...
He wrote a statement about the enrollment of me in the team of cosmonauts and brought it to the then general designer Vasily Pavlovich Mishin, who was before Glushko. Friday and evening. The secretary is no longer. Mishin works alone in his office. He read my statement and said:
Have you joined the astronauts? Where are the words that you want to give life?
And I say, I don’t want to give life at all. I want to go into space and I want to go back.
He agreed:
“Go,” he said, “prepare yourself.