On this day, in 2003: First person married in space. Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. Malenchenko, contrary to expectations, wore a formal flight uniform, not a tuxedo. He and his best man, spaceshipmate Ed Lu, appeared on a video linkup between the station and the wedding hall. Following Texas law, they performed a proxy marriage ceremony (one of Yuri’s friends, a Russian flight surgeon, stood in for him in Houston) and then blew kisses to each other. As the bride left the altar, Lu played Mendelssohn’s traditional “Wedding March” music on the keyboard aboard the station.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Aug 2013 05:08:15 +0000
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