NEW RECORD
Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov sets a new human spaceflight endurance record today aboard the Mir space station when he logs his 366th consecutive day in orbit. Polyakov, a physician and deputy director of the Institute for Biomedical Problems in Moscow, is scheduled to remain aboard Mir a total of 442...
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