During their training and after their joint mission to the Salyut 6 orbital station, Pyotr Klimuk and Mirosław Hermaszewski befriended each other – they stayed in touch and remained close friends ever since. Mirosław also befriended numerous other persons associated with the Soviet space programme during his time in Russia and Kazakhstan, including members of Yuri Gagarin's family and Alexei Leonov. Hermaszewski continues to express gratitude for being given the opportunity to see the cosmos firsthand and recalls it very fondly, admitting that he misses it and still dreams about the experience often. He regularly visits schools and speaks with children of all ages, as well as attending interviews with various media outlets; he has been described as a "modest and likeable person". Hermaszewski claims to have had an "aesthetic experience" that transformed into a "spiritual experience" while aboard the Soyuz 30 in space, but he views faith and religion as an intimate and private matter.