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Marx may have nixed Christmas, but he said nothing about April Fools' Day, and one Mir crew took advantage of the oversight. On April 1, 1988, cosmonaut Musa Manarov alerted the ground that he had found a mysterious string of numbers written, inexplicably, on the outside of the station. His call was received by Vladimir Bezyaev, a mission-control radio commentator who had been chatting with the cosmonauts and was in on the joke. Bezyaev played it straight, relaying the news to the rest of the control room. "Mission control completely believed [Manarov]," he says. "They even asked...
...Houston engineer and an expert on the Soviet space program. "It blows us out of our last space-operations monopoly." The Soviet program achieved a second milestone just a few days earlier: on board the orbiting Mir space station, which has no U.S. equivalent, cosmonauts Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov broke the world record of 326 days in space...
...anywhere on the effects of long-term, deep-space radiation exposure." Even so, with Romanenko's performance the Soviets bolstered their commanding lead over the U.S. in long-duration space flights. Soviet space officials have decreed that the current crew of the space station Mir, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov, will stay in orbit for a full year...
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