Back From Space, a Nation Had Vanished: Krikalev and the USSR's End
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Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev spent over 312 days aboard the MIR space station, then returned to Earth to find the Soviet Union had dissolved, leaving him back on a planet where his homeland no longer existed.
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