Usachev could have an easier time recovering, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
Atop this vehicle would sit a capsule, called Orion, equipped with the life support technologies able to sustain humans on long-duration missions.
Only fellow cosmonauts have stayed in space longer, including the long-duration champion, Sergey Avdeyev, who on three missions spent 747 days off the planet.
Ditching the 1951 Fed-Treasury accord ending government control of bond yields, the Fed selected and purchased trillions of dollars in long-duration bonds and mortgages.
Usachev has experience dealing with the consequences of a long-term stay in space, having spent two long-duration missions on the retired Russian space station Mir.
But Mr Aldrin disagreed with the view that astronauts should test capabilities for a long-duration flight on the Moon before attempting a journey to Mars.
This has come against a background of louder calls from pension funds for long-duration bonds, which have cashflows that can offset future payments to pensioners.
Steinmetz suggests buying and holding long-duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns, and rolling them out, staying out in the same part of the yield curve.
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The long-duration index has also recovered quickly from adversity, helped in no small measure by the bullish tint to the bond market over the past decade.
And that's a great question because one of the hard things about long-duration space flight is the human body dealing with weightlessness and a lack of gravity.
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Once the exorbitant fees are taken into account, returns look much less impressive than the industry's promoters claim, and than an illiquid, leveraged and long-duration investment would warrant.
This flight will shortly be followed by another test run to ensure that everything checks out, after which it will begin its first long-duration mission sometime later this month.
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We're also doing metallic research and materials research to help us understand how to make materials on Earth better, but also to find out what materials are better for long-duration missions and traveling beyond Earth's orbit.
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But as a partner on the ISS programme, and following an agreement to extend space station operations until 2020, Europe has the right to claim a long-duration ISS residency of six months roughly every two years.
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And one of the really nice things that we have and the long-duration crews have is the opportunity to use a telephone or to perform a videoconference similar to like we're doing with you guys with our families.
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Now Major Peake, as he waits to be assigned a space mission, is in an ongoing programme of spacesuit training, zero-g flights to "practice weightlessness" and 12-day stints 20m (65ft) under water to research "crew behaviour for long-duration missions".
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Rather, the 2010 QDR proposed to determine force sizing and composition by using the requirements of a diverse and complex set of scenarios, including long-duration stability operations and the defense of the homeland on par with a major regional conflict (MRC).
And if the crew assigned to man the deep-space mission travels up separately to the station, it would also mean all the elements for their long-duration flight could be launched without the complications of ultra-safe abort systems that complicate manned rockets.
Between 1993 and 2006, that requirement evolved from the desire to maintain the capability to defeat two conventionally armed aggressors to the need to conduct a campaign against a conventional adversary while also waging a long-duration irregular warfare campaign and protecting the homeland against attack.
This makes it possible to record approximately 12 hours of terrestrial digital TV broadcasts or approximately 8.6 hoursof BS digital TV broadcasts in DR mode (recorded with the image quality exactly as broadcast), or store other long-duration video content, all on a single disc, while preserving the same high-definition image quality of the original.
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Over time, the requirement evolved from maintaining the capability to defeat two conventionally armed aggressors to a more complex formulation in which the U.S. military was asked to be able to conduct a single campaign against a conventional adversary while waging a long-duration counterinsurgency and stability campaign or protecting the homeland against attack and providing support to civil authorities.
At the same time Vanguard's New York Long-Term Tax-Exempt Fund, with an average duration of 6.8 years, offered a yield to maturity of 3.8%.
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In addition, the IOF rate on non-resident investment in long-term corporate bonds with a duration over four years is being reduced from 6% to zero, with the goal of stimulating private long-term investment and financing, the government said in a press release on Friday morning.
The 30-second spot, long the workhorse of on-air ads, is yielding to shorter duration ads, which were up 12%.
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Long duration fixed income, such as 10-year sovereigns.
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Interesting to note that ARCT is now the second largest triple net sector REIT and its smaller sister REIT, ARCP, invests in similar property types with the exception that ARCP invests in medium duration leases and ARCT invests in long-term leases.
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House economists noted the sticky rate of long duration unemployment and the high share of part-timers.
We also know, anecdotally, of how, in the past decade, millions more Americans have become dependent on food stamps and on jobless benefits (not just for the six-month normal duration, but now for as long as two years).
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Prices could slump as a major buyer steps to the sidelines, and for the minimal returns available in bonds more than a few years in duration, the risk of a years-long bull run reversing is too substantial for Fuss to flirt with.
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