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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

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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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