Labels:text | font | paper | letter | document | screenshot OCR: (1942- ) VALERI POLIAKOV left the Earth for the Mir space station on January 8, 1994 and returned 438 days later on March 22, 1995. By doing this, the Russian cosmonaut achieved the longest single stay anyone has ever made in space and brought his total time spent in space to over 22 months. As a doctor of medicine, his role on board the Mir space station was to monitor the effects of living in space on his own and other cosmonauts' bodies, looking for both physical and psychological changes. 1942 Born on April 27. 1960 Graduates from the Sechenov Medical Institute, Moscow. 1977 Selected to train as a cosmonaut. 1980 Trains as backup cosmonaut for a flight in November. 1984 Trains as backup cosmonaut for a flight in February. 1988 August 29, Poliakov begins a 241-day stay in space. On boar ...
