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Sep 19, 2022 · Polyakov spent 438 days in space on Mir in 1994-1995, testing human endurance for Mars mission. He was also a medical doctor and a deputy director of the Ministry of Public Health in Moscow.
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- Russia's Space Station Mir
Sep 20, 2022 · A Russian cosmonaut who holds the record for the longest-ever trip to space has died aged 80. Valery Polyakov spent 437 full days orbiting the Earth between 1994 and 1995 on the Mir space...
Sep 21, 2022 · Polyakov spent 437 days in orbit on Mir, the longest single spaceflight to date. He helped test the limits of the human body, mind, and spirit in space and paved the way for future missions to Mars.
Sep 20, 2022 · CNN —. Cosmonaut Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov, who holds the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russian space agency Roscosmos announced Monday.
Yuri Gagarin - Wikipedia. Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin [a] [b] (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of Earth on 12 April 1961, with his flight taking 108 minutes.
Expedition 11 Commander Sergei Krikalev dons a training space suit. In October 1992, NASA announced that an experienced cosmonaut would fly aboard a future Space Shuttle mission. Krikalev was one of two candidates named by the Russian Space Agency for mission specialist training with the crew of STS-60.
Four months earlier, Krikalev, a 33-year-old flight engineer, had set off for the Mir space station from the Soviet Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in Kazakhstan.
