Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months during one trip. His combined space experience was more than 22 months. Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988. He returned to Earth 240 days later aboard TM-7. Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space between launching on Soyuz TM-18 and landing with TM-20, setting the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual.Wikipedia
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 - 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut.He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 ...
ValeriPolyakov is known for carrying out the longest single spaceflight in history, spending 437 days straight on the Mir space station between 1994 and 1995. And over the course of his two ...
ValeriPolyakov was born on April 27, 1942, in the Russian industrial city of Tula. A medical doctor by trade, the future cosmonaut studied at the I. M. Sechenov 1st Moscow Medical Institute. After getting his degree, he attended the Institute of Medical and Biological Problems, Ministry of Public Health in Moscow where he studied astronautics ...
Polyakov lived and worked on the Mir space station from 8 January 1994 to 22 March 1995, reportedly orbiting the Earth more than 7,000 times. He later said that the duration of the trip was the ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia's space agency announced Monday. Polyakov's record of 437 days in space began Jan. 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off on a two-day flight to the Soviet space station Mir.
Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov (born April 27, 1942, Tula, Russia, U.S.S.R.—died September 19, 2022) was a Russian cosmonaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight in history.. Polyakov had an early interest in spaceflight, and in 1971 he joined the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, the leading Soviet institution for space biomedicine.
Oct 11, 2024ValeriPolyakov pictured in the window of Mir, Russia's space station (NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images) Polyakov was incredibly nervous ahead of his second ever mission - and for good reason. The Soviet Union was dissolving and a lot of money had been poured into the project, at a time where there really was none.
Cosmonaut ValeriPolyakov, who holds the record for the longest-ever trip to space, has died at the age of 80, Russia's space agency Roscosmos announced on Monday.
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (Russian: Валерий Владимирович Поляков, born Valeri Ivanovich Korshunov, Russian: Валерий Иванович Коршунов, 27 April 1942 - 7 September 2022) was a Soviet and Russian cosmonaut. He is the record holder for the longest single stay in space, staying aboard the Mir Space Station for more than 14 months (437 days 18 ...
When ValeriPolyakov returned to Earth on March 22, 1995, he had spent 437 days continuously in space — which remains a world record. Living in the Mir space station, originally the centrepiece of the Soviet space effort and later the. It was a phenomenal feat of physical and psychological endurance. When ValeriPolyakov returned to Earth on ...
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