I think he was able to return like 9 months later or something
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When the Soviet Union failed, Sergei Krikalev was on the spacecraft of Mir. He was expected to be long before that, but the nation which sent him was really disintegrated, the money ceased, and there was no rough scheme or finance to bring him back.
So he just kept working in orbit while politics on Earth unraveled. He ended up staying about nine months and returned to a completely different country than the one that launched him.
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Krakozhia?
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“Krikalev was stationed on MIR during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He launched on May 18, 1991, and witnessed Boris Yeltsin’s election as Russian president, the failed coup attempt in Moscow, and the dissolution of the USSR while in space.
The collapse of the Soviet Union into individual nation states extended his stay in space by six months. For political reasons, instead of the planned long-term replacement from Russia, the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov was sent to MIR in October 1991, a cosmonaut with no long-term experience who returned to Earth after eight days. The Russians thus complied with a demand from the soon-to-be independent Republic of Kazakhstan, on whose territory the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located.”
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Put the space station in H.
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He was known as the last soviet citizen.
sojuz151 on
Soviet economy went from pretending to work well to no longer even pretendingÂ
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Meanwhile people from the Balkans Civil War be like:
“This guy’s in space while we’re down here having all the fun.”
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I think he was able to return like 9 months later or something
When the Soviet Union failed, Sergei Krikalev was on the spacecraft of Mir. He was expected to be long before that, but the nation which sent him was really disintegrated, the money ceased, and there was no rough scheme or finance to bring him back.
So he just kept working in orbit while politics on Earth unraveled. He ended up staying about nine months and returned to a completely different country than the one that launched him.
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Krakozhia?
“Krikalev was stationed on MIR during the dissolution of the Soviet Union. He launched on May 18, 1991, and witnessed Boris Yeltsin’s election as Russian president, the failed coup attempt in Moscow, and the dissolution of the USSR while in space.
The collapse of the Soviet Union into individual nation states extended his stay in space by six months. For political reasons, instead of the planned long-term replacement from Russia, the Kazakh Toktar Aubakirov was sent to MIR in October 1991, a cosmonaut with no long-term experience who returned to Earth after eight days. The Russians thus complied with a demand from the soon-to-be independent Republic of Kazakhstan, on whose territory the Baikonur Cosmodrome is located.”
Put the space station in H.
He was known as the last soviet citizen.
Soviet economy went from pretending to work well to no longer even pretendingÂ
Meanwhile people from the Balkans Civil War be like:
“This guy’s in space while we’re down here having all the fun.”
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Instead of this movie, we got The Terminal.