On the other hand, Vitali didn't particularly care for the climate here. Then again, he might have had something of a bad taste in his mouth. This was not exactly the most attractive place in the world. It didn't look like the kind of place that would have been associated with a highly visible space program either. It simply looked as though it were thrust here, sort of, in a way that more or less illustrated that it had been hidden from movie cameras.<br/><br/>Had something gone wrong here, then the Soviet leadership certainly didn't want anyone knowing about it. Journalists were always shown the positive light and the best sides of stories. They never got the kind of taste of the bad side that one might have otherwise expected from this sort of a setup. If a rocket launch failed, then Vitali figured that very few people would have ever heard much of it.<br/><br/>The remote location, therefore, was rather attractive to those who had something to hide. For the time being, though, he decided to reflect more on her and less on his own problems. After all, he had actually come here to speak with her and not to deal with those sorts of things.<br/><br/>Smiling gently, he ultimately looked into her eyes and seemed more romantic than usual. Nevertheless, her comment about him loving some piece of technological flight hardware made him laugh. "Certainly I can't say that I hadn't fell in love with the Vostok capsule, but I have to also admit that I sort of felt like I was trapped in a can of caviar."<br/><br/>Over time he came to laugh again before resting securely in her arms, should she have allowed him to do this. He certainly had liked the feeling that he would have been comfortably there if she elected him to stay. More than anything, at this point, that was what he had wanted.<br/><br/>Still, after she had admitted that she had loved him, he felt that the time was right for another joke.<br/><br/>"More than anything else on Earth you say, but if you were me could you love something else more that was outside of the Earth's atmosphere?"<br/><br/>Sighing gently, he focused on this thought. It was a little comforting to know that he could have periodically continued to make these sorts of jokes. After all, he was a cosmonaut, and that was serious business. Never had he doubted that his job was serious and of vital national importance.<br/><br/>No one, however, had told him that it always had to be frowns and furrowed brows. He liked the light and airy conversation that he could have with her.<br/><br/>"Let's go have something to eat like we had said we were going to do before." It looked like he had something that he had wanted to tell her about.<br/><br/>"There is an astronaut I have heard of in the United States. Remember how I was telling you all about the rockets that I have heard they launch in Florida? Well, apparently there's one who doesn't take his job seriously and causes a lot of problems for them. He seems to be quite a prankster!"