Word: poliakov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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That made the situation aboard Mir unsettling, to say the least. Cosmonauts Malenchenko, Valeri Poliakov and Talgat Musabayev have been subsisting on supplies left over from earlier missions, including food two years past its expiration date. They've had to drink water recycled from their breath and sweat...
...cosmonauts would have had to cut , short their stay, returning to earth in an emergency re-entry vehicle stored on the Mir. That would have meant leaving the station unmanned for the first time in five years and abandoning a planned record-setting 427-day tour in space by Poliakov...