The longest continuous spaceflight in history — 437 days aboard the Russian Mir space station, completed by cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov in 1995 — was specifically conducted to prove that a human being could survive a round-trip mission to Mars, in a piece of human endurance that has been waiting unused on a shelf for three decades
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<p>The record sits at the top of every list of human spaceflight endurance achievements
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