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437 DAYS IN SPACE
Russian cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov set the
record for the longest spaceflight duration
for a single journey, his exploration in
space lasting 437 days. He volunteered
to embark on the mission in order to learn
how the human body would respond to the
micro-gravity environment on long-duration
space missions.
THE RED PLANET UP CLOSE
After a journey of about 8½ months
and approximately 350 million miles,
the Curiosity rover successfully landed
on the surface of planet Mars. Together
with the rover Opportunity (which landed
on Mars in 2004), this exploratory
robotic rover was developed to probe
into Mars’ possible habitability by way
of assessing the planet’s geological and
atmospheric conditions.
2012
1995
CHINA’S NEXT FRONTIER
Shenzhou 5 was the first manned
space mission by the Chinese space
program, following 4 unmanned
missions since 1999. With taikonaut
Yang Liwei onboard the spacecraft,
the mission made China the third
nation to independently send a
human in outer space.
2003
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