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Originally Posted by T.Garrett
Where mentioned my favorite living Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev (all smiles being carried away by medics and specialists after returning from a mission)
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Sergei Krikalev has had a colorful spaceflight career. In December 1991 he was aboard the Mir space station when the Soviet Union dissolved and returned to a new country--the Russian Federation. In December 1998 during the STS-88 mission aboard space shuttle
Endeavour, he and NASA astronaut Robert Cabana were the first to enter the 'Unity' module of the new International Space Station.
Krikalev is now vice-president of RKK Energia and administrator of the Yuri Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center. Cabana is now director of Kennedy Space Center.
Krikalev is also a time-traveler, having aged about 1 second longer than Earthbound humans due to the time-dilation effect orbiting Earth, and is the third-most-travelled spacefarer in history, with 804 days in space.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Krikalev