The Russian participant of circumnavigation told about flight through the South Pole

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Moscow, 12 Jul - information agency "RIA Novosti". Participants of record round-the-world flight by jet Gulfstream G650ER plane faced on the South Pole a surprise – air temperature fell to-83 thus that engines could work to-80, the Russian astronaut Padalka Gennady, participating in expedition told information agency "RIA Novosti". The Russian participated in one of circumnavigation stages - from Astana to Port-Louis (the island Mauritius). Expedition rounded a planet in record 46 hours 40 minutes, having broken the previous record...