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Poland’s Only Cosmonaut, Who Circled Earth in 1978, Has Died

December 17, 2022
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WARSAW, Poland—Poland’s only cosmonaut, Gen. Miroslaw Hermaszewski, who circled the Earth in a Soviet spacecraft in 1978, has died. He was 81. The retired air force pilot’s death on Monday was announced via Twitter by his son-in-law, European Parliament member Ryszard Czarnecki. He later told Polish media outlets that Hermaszewski died at a hospital in…

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SpaceX Capsule Heads to Space Station Ferrying NASA Crew and Russian

October 5, 2022
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A SpaceX rocket soared into orbit from Florida on Wednesday carrying the next long-term International Space Station crew, with a Russian cosmonaut, two Americans, and a Japanese astronaut flying together in a demonstration of U.S.-Russian teamwork in space despite Ukraine war tensions. A high-ranking official of the Russian space agency Roscosmos said shortly…

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Valery Polyakov, Who Took Longest Single Trip to Space, Dies

September 19, 2022
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MOSCOW—Valery Polyakov, the Soviet cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia’s space agency announced Monday. Polyakov’s record of 437 days in space began Jan. 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off on a two-day flight to the Soviet space station Mir. While…

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Russian Filmmakers Land After Shoot Aboard Space Station

October 17, 2021
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MOSCOW—A Soyuz space capsule carrying a cosmonaut and two Russian filmmakers has landed after a three-and-a-half-hour trip from the International Space Station. The capsule, descending under a red-and-white striped parachute after entering Earth’s atmosphere, landed upright in the steppes of Kazakhstan on schedule at 4:35 a.m. GMT Sunday with Oleg Novitskiy, Yulia Peresild, and Klim…

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