Valery Polyakov, the Russian cosmonaut who set the record for the longest single stay in space, has died at age 80, Russia's space agency announced Monday.
Polyakov's record of 437 days in space began on Jan. 8, 1994, when he and two others blasted off on a two-day flight to the Mir space station Mir, operated by the Soviet Union and later by Russia. While aboard Mir, he orbited the Earth more than 7,000 times, before returning on March 22, 1995.
Polyakov previously had spent 288 days in space on a mission in 1988 and 1989.
The announcement by space agency Roscosmos did not state a cause of death.
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