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Old October 6th 12, 07:51 AM posted to sci.space.station
Brian Gaff
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Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who would want
to go for that long?

I suppose a year is more realistic than the current duration, but I think
some missions would obviously take longer than that.
Brian

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Old October 6th 12, 02:45 PM posted to sci.space.station
Alan Erskine[_3_]
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On 6/10/2012 4:51 PM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who would want
to go for that long?

I suppose a year is more realistic than the current duration, but I think
some missions would obviously take longer than that.
Brian


A Soviet/Russian cosmonaut stayed up for 440 days from memory. Poliakov?
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Old October 6th 12, 03:27 PM posted to sci.space.station
Alan Erskine[_3_]
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On 6/10/2012 11:45 PM, Alan Erskine wrote:
On 6/10/2012 4:51 PM, Brian Gaff wrote:
Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who
would want
to go for that long?

I suppose a year is more realistic than the current duration, but I
think
some missions would obviously take longer than that.
Brian


A Soviet/Russian cosmonaut stayed up for 440 days from memory. Poliakov?


I misspelled his name: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valeri_Polyakov
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Old October 7th 12, 06:24 PM posted to sci.space.station
Brian Thorn[_2_]
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On Sat, 6 Oct 2012 07:51:54 +0100, "Brian Gaff"
wrote:

Well I see they are going to take the plunge. The question is who would want
to go for that long?


According to rumor, Peggy Whitson.

Brian
 




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