- Valery Polyakov, who held the record for the achieving the longest single stay in space, has passed away at the age of 80.
- Valery Polyakov’s record of 437 days in space started on January 8, 1994.
- While aboard the Soviet Space Station Mir, he orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times before returning back to Earth on March 22, 1995.
- He trained as a physician and demonstrated the human body’s capacity to withstand extended period in outer space.
- Earlier, Polyakov spent 288 days in space on a mission that took place in 1988-89.
- This was his first mission into space. He returned to Earth in the year 1989 after 8 months.
- He served as the Deputy Director of the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow.
- He held this position even after formally retiring from being a cosmonaut in 1995 and simultaneously served as a deputy chair of the commission responsible for certifying Russian cosmonauts.
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