The World : Soviets Set Space Mark
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Two Soviet cosmonauts broke a 326-day record for endurance in space as the official Tass news agency announced that a second attempt to launch the Soviet space shuttle will take place Tuesday. The first attempt on Oct. 29 to launch the shuttle Buran ended 51 seconds before scheduled liftoff when equipment on the launch pad failed to move away from the unmanned craft. Tass said the two cosmonauts on the Mir space station--flight commander Vladimir Titov, 41, and engineer Musa Manarov, 37--broke last year’s record established by colleague Yuri Romanenko. The U.S. record for the longest manned mission is 84 days, set in 1973.
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