Poliakov heads for spaceflight record

1995-01-04T00:00:00

RUSSIAN COSMONAUT-PHYSICIAN Valeri Poliakov (right) is expected to break the record for the longest manned space-flight, when he reaches 366 days in orbit on 9 January - exceeding the year in orbit spent by the Soyuz TM4 crew, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, in 1987/8. Poliakov, who was launched to ...

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