Labels:text | screenshot OCR: SPACE-ENDURANCE RECORDS LIVING IN SPACE THE FIRST ENDURANCE RECORDS were quickly broken as the length of missions was gradually increased to see how weightlessness affected the THE FIRST FLIGHT human body over progressively longer periods. The first endurance record In preparation for the Apollo program it was was set by Yury Gagarin, whose mission lasted only necessary to find out whether astronauts 108 minutes. could survive in space long enough for the proposed round trip to the CCE Moon. In 1965, the Gemini 5 mission showed that this was possible. Russian cosmonauts have now lived in space long enough to travel to Mars, the next place that humans may visit. Since 1973, when American astronauts held the endurance record of 84 days in >> SPACE TECHNOLOGY SPACE TRAVEL LIVING IN SPACE
