March 22 in History
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov (April 1942 – ), a Russian former cosmonaut returned to earth on this day in 1995, after spending 14 months – 437 days and 18 hours – on board the Mir space station, creating a record for the longest single stay in space in human history. His combined space experience is more than 22 months.
Selected as a cosmonaut in 1972, Polyakov made his first flight into space aboard Soyuz TM-6 in 1988. He returned to Earth 240 days later aboard TM-7. Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space between launching on Soyuz TM-18 and landing on TM-20, setting the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual in human history.
-Wikipedia
Photo Caption- Cosmonaut Valeriy V. Polyakov, who boarded Russia’s Mir space station on January 8, 1994, looks out Mir’s window during rendezvous operations with the Space Shuttle Discovery in February 1995 –NASA