June 14, 1963 –
The Soviet spacecraft Vostok 5 was launched into orbit on this date. Over the course of the next five days, Cosmonaut Valery Bykovsky would set a new record for the longest manned space flight in history.
The record would later be broken by the crew of Gemini 7, but Bykovsky will continue to hold the endurance record for a solo flight.
And so it goes
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