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When Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev launched to Mir in May 1991, the country that sent him was still the USSR; by the time he returned in March 1992 it no longer existed, his home city of Leningrad had become Saint Petersburg, and even the spaceport tha
Sergei Krikalev launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in May 1991 as a Soviet citizen. He returned to Earth on 25 March 1992, after 311 days in orbit, as a Russian one. The country that had sent him no longer existed. The mission was originally meant to last about five months. Krikalev was the flight engineer on Soyuz TM-12, alongside commander Anatoly Artsebarsky and British cosmonaut Helen Sharman, the first Briton in space, who returned with …
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