Russian Ends 437 Days in Space; Cosmonaut Lands, Feeble and Pale, After Record Flight

From: The Washington Post | Date: March 23, 1995| Author: Margaret Shapiro | Copyright information

After more than a year in space, Russian cosmonaut Valery Polyakov landed back on Earth today, feeble and pale from such prolonged weightlessness but apparently happy to be back on terra firma.

When Polyakov, 52, and two cosmonaut colleagues bumped gently onto the snow-covered northern steppe of Kazakhstan early this morning, he had spent 437 consecutive days in space aboard the Russian space station Mir. When other missions are factored in, he has spent a total of 607 days in space.

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