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| | Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, Breaks Space Record - The Post Chronicle |
 | | Sergei Konstantinovich Krikalev was born August 27, 1958, in Leningrad, Russia, and is married with one daughter. |
 | | Krikalev was selected as a cosmonaut in 1985, completed his basic training in 1986, and was assigned to the Buran Shuttle program. |
 | | Krikalev flew on STS-88 Endeavour (December 4-15, 1998), and was a member of the Expedition-1 crew that launched October 31, 2000 on a Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan, successfully docking with the station on November 2, 2000. |
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