Asif A. Siddiqi
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Assistant Professor of History, Fordham University, Bronx, New York. Author of Challenge to Apollo: The Soviet Union and the Space Race, 1945-1974.
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Valery Vladimirovich Polyakov was a Russian cosmonaut who holds the record for the longest single spaceflight in history. Polyakov had an early interest in spaceflight, and in 1971 he joined the Institute of Biomedical Problems in Moscow, the leading Soviet institution for space biomedicine. Inβ¦
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