* January 9 – Valeri Polyakov completes 366 days in space while aboard the Mir space station, breaking a duration record.

The current distance and duration record recognised by the FAI was achieved on 23 April 1988 from Heraklion on Crete to Santorini in a MIT Daedalus 88 piloted by Kanellos Kanellopoulos: a straight distance of in 3 hours, 54 minutes.

The duration record for a single spaceflight is 437. 7 days, set by Valeriy Polyakov aboard Mir from 1994 to 1995., three astronauts have completed single missions of over a year, all aboard Mir.

* In 1952 soaring over the mountains here Charles Atger set the world duration record in a sailplane.

The criteria fall into seven dimensions: history and development of the institution ; facilities and libraries ; teaching faculty, teaching standards and research track record ; program administration, career and alumni services ; student admission standards, diversity and cohort size ; curriculum content, program mode and duration ; and learning outcomes.

They do not record the exact time, duration, and strength of each clenching incident as bedside EMG monitors do.

Instead of using a greater number of bits and attempting to record a signal's precise amplitude for every sample cycle, a Direct Stream Digital recorder works by encoding a signal in a series of PWM pulses of fixed amplitude but variable duration and timing.

Following a recent firmware update the Nintendo 3DS can now record and play " 3D-AVI " M-JPEG encoded files ( the same format used in the Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D series ) from the SD card in 320x240 resolution with a duration of 10 minutes or less.

By using zoom-FFT to record SSEPs at the theoretical limit of spectral resolution ΔF ( where ΔF in Hz is the reciprocal of the recording duration in seconds ) Regan and Regan discovered that the amplitude and phase variability of the SSEP can be sufficiently small that the bandwidth of the SSEP ’ s constituent frequency components can be at the theoretical limit of spectral resolution up to at least a 500 second recording duration ( 0. 002 Hz in this case ).

The duration of the Gemini 5 flight was actually 7 days 22 hours and 55 minutes, surpassing the then-current Russian record of five days.

* 1996-A record is reached at Tore Supra: a plasma duration of two minutes with a current of almost 1 million amperes driven non-inductively by 2. 3 MW of lower hybrid frequency waves ( i. e. 280 MJ of injected and extracted energy ).

The mission set a new space endurance record and marked a shift in emphasis away from spacefarers merely being able to exist in space for the duration of a long mission ( such as the Apollo flights to the moon ) and being able to live in space.

The S8 glider they designed and built together in 1921 broke a world duration record ( albeit unofficially ) and they went into partnership for a while running a flying school.

As an attempt at a Top 40 record and mainstream acceptance, the songs are more " produced " and longer in duration, averaging around three minutes.

It was recognized by the FAI as a double world record flight for its duration and straight line distance of 3, 030 km using an autopilot.

An early duration record for the hula hoop was set by 11-year-olds Paulette Robinson, Charles Beard and Patsy Jo Grigby in Jackson, Mississippi lasting 11 hours and 34 minutes ( August, 1960 ).

In October 2011, along with co-pilot Jon Mason, David won the Americas Challenge Balloon race and in doing so set a new duration record for the race.

The Skylab 2 mission established a record for human spaceflight duration.

It was also the first time an American manned space mission held the world record for duration, set on August 26, 1965, by breaking the Soviet Union's previous record set by Vostok 5 in 1963.

This doubled the length of time that anyone had been in space and stood as the longest spaceflight duration record for five years.

Once the duration of the discharge has passed and the conditions of the probation have been successfully followed, the discharge becomes absolute, i. e., the youth will not be viewed as the offender although the record can be used for three years after finding of guilt in the event that there is a subsequent conviction.

STS-32 set a new shuttle duration record of nearly eleven days.

He is known for having performed ten EVAs so far in his career, presently holding the second longest all-time EVA duration record and having the longest spaceflight of any American at the length of 215 days ; this time was spent on board the ISS from September 18, 2006 to April 21, 2007.

Before flying on Apollo, he set a fourteen-day spaceflight endurance record on Gemini 7, and also served on the NASA review board which investigated the Apollo 1 fire.

This was a long-endurance flight which set a fourteen-day record, and also acted as the target vehicle in the first space rendezvous performed by Gemini 6A.

More potent a charm to bring back that time of life than this record of a few pictures and a few remembered facts would be a catalogue of the minutiae which are of the very stuff of the mind, intrinsic, because they were known in the beginning not by the eye alone but by the hand that held them.

The Journal, decoded and transcribed by Leslie Linder in 1958, does not provide an intimate record of her personal life, but it is an invaluable source for understanding a vibrant part of British society in the late 19th century.

Despite his ill health, Haley began compiling notes for possible use as a basis for either a biographical film based on his life, or a published autobiography ( accounts differ ), and there were plans for him to record an album in Memphis, Tennessee, when the brain tumor began affecting his behavior and he went back to his home in Harlingen, Texas, where he died early in the morning of February 9, 1981.

At what point during the war Teach joined the fighting is, in keeping with the record of most of his life before he became a pirate, unknown.

However, Vertov's two credos, often used interchangeably, are in fact distinct, as Yuri Tsivian points out in the commentary track on the DVD for Man with the Movie Camera: for Vertov, " life as it is " means to record life as it would be without the camera present.

" Life caught unawares " means to record life when surprised, and perhaps provoked, by the presence of a camera.

Lord and Lady Mountbatten with Muhammad Ali JinnahNotwithstanding the self-promotion of his own part in Indian independence — notably in the television series The Life and Times of Admiral of the Fleet Lord Mountbatten of Burma, produced by his son-in-law Lord Brabourne and Dominique Lapierre, and Larry Collins's Freedom at Midnight ( of which he was the main quoted source ) — his record is seen as very mixed ; one common view is that he hastened the independence process unduly and recklessly, foreseeing vast disruption and loss of life and not wanting this to occur on the British watch, but thereby actually causing it to occur, especially in Punjab and Bengal.

The fossil record was one of the early sources of data relevant to the study of evolution and continues to be relevant to the history of life on Earth.

It was Darwin and his contemporaries who first linked the hierarchical structure of the great tree of life in living organisms with the then very sparse fossil record.

This research is a notable example of how knowledge encoded by the fossil record continues to contribute otherwise unattainable information on the emergence and development of life on Earth.

Various recollections and interpretations were published in the 1950s and 1960s but Sonia saw the 1968 Collected Works as the record of his life.

The Hadean eon represents the time before fossil record of life on Earth ; its upper boundary is now regarded as 4. 0 Ga. Other subdivisions reflect the evolution of life ; the Archean and Proterozoic are both eons, the Palaeozoic, Mesozoic and Cenozoic are eras of the Phanerozoic eon.

Democritus seems to be the earliest philosopher on record to have categorically embraced a hedonistic philosophy ; he called the supreme goal of life " contentment " or " cheerfulness ", claiming that " joy and sorrow are the distinguishing mark of things beneficial and harmful " ( DK 68 B 188 ).

There is no written record of the twenty-four years of Hildegard's life that she was in the convent together with Jutta.

But if, say, ten Companions record a text reporting a single incident in the life of Prophet, hadith scholars can count this as ten hadiths.

He was 76 when he started to record his memories in the form of imaginary landscapes, and he produced over 2, 000 drawings during the last decade of his life.

Unlike many of his contemporaries, he did not record in the early blues era, but his life is well documented thanks to his autobiography, I Say Me for a Parable: The Oral Autobiography of Mance Lipscomb, Texas Bluesman, narrated to Glen Alyn, which was published posthumously, and also a short 1971 documentary by Les Blank, A Well Spent Life.

Palaeontology lies on the boundary between biology and geology since palaeontology focuses on the record of past life but its main source of evidence is fossils, which are found in rocks.

There is a fairly solid record of bacterial life throughout the remainder of the Precambrian.

Thus, Gosse argued that the fossil record — even coprolites — might also be evidence of life that had never actually existed but which may have been instantly formed by God at the moment of creation.

Pteranodon species are extremely well represented in the fossil record, allowing for detailed descriptions of their anatomy and analysis of their life history.

The historical record contains few details of Romulus ' life.

Though there is no explicit record of this, it is usually assumed that Sappho returned from exile at some point and that she spent most of her life in Lesbos.