Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov, who logged the single longest stay in space, has died at the age of 80. Polyakov launched on two missions to the space station Mir. In total, he was off Earth for 678 days.
The Soviet Union leader’s was a life of dutiful progress through a hermetic, sometimes brutal world. How did he manage to save a piece of himself and become the figure he was?
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