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Soviet Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov
September 24 , 2022
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- Valery Polyakov, who held the record for the achieving the longest single stay in space, has passed away.
- He stayed 437 days in space from January 8, 1994.
- He orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times before returning back to Earth on March 22, 1995.
- Earlier, Polyakov spent 288 days in space on a mission that took place in 1988-89.
- He participated in an experiment SFINCSS-99 (Simulation of Flight of International Crew on Space Station) in 1999.
- Polyakov’s longest record of 678 days in space has been surpassed in 1999 by cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev, who stayed in space for 747 days.
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