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Valeri Polyakov

Valeri Polyakov adapted well to life in space. Then again, the cosmonaut spent more than enough time away from our planet to make it feel like a second home, with not one but two lengthy stays in low-Earth orbit.

The first came in 1988 when he resided on the Soviet Union’s Mir space station for 240 days. He arrived there after

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