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Robert Pearlman
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posted 08-10-2003 04:36 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Robert Pearlman   Click Here to Email Robert Pearlman     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

(Credit: Associated Press)

Ekaterina Dmitriev Malenchenko poses with a cardboard cutout of her new husband, cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko, following a long distance wedding ceremony between the couple Sunday, Aug. 10, 2003, in Houston.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_re_us/space_marriage

randy
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posted 08-10-2003 11:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for randy   Click Here to Email randy     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I'm happy they got to do it. Congratulations and many happy returns!

DavidH
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posted 08-11-2003 10:12 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for DavidH   Click Here to Email DavidH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Has anybody seen pictures of Yuri during the wedding? All the ones I've seen have been from the ground. And after all the reports talking about how he had a coat brought up to ISS for the occassion, all the stories yesterday said he just wore the bow tie and flight suit. Kind of odd.

tegwilym
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posted 08-11-2003 01:18 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for tegwilym   Click Here to Email tegwilym     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Good for them! I'm glad they did do it anyway. Another odd but interesting historical moment for the space program.

john ffoulkes
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posted 08-11-2003 03:41 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for john ffoulkes   Click Here to Email john ffoulkes     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Congratulations to both of them, another "first" in space, and a bit of needed publicity.

Ed beck
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posted 08-12-2003 09:20 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Ed beck   Click Here to Email Ed beck     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Uh.. You know.. looong distance relationships can be tough. But, we hope these two can make it work. Mazel tov!!!!
Ed And Ruth Beck

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kosmonavtka
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posted 08-13-2003 04:26 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kosmonavtka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Haven't seen a mention or photo of the wedding on the NASA or Energiya sites yet. Guess the grumpy old fuddy-duddies in Management are going to ignore it.

Larry McGlynn
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Katie Couric of the TODAY show interviewed the bride and the wedding planner yesterday in the NY studio. So Ekaterina has quite a press tour going on right now.

I am beginning to wonder if the wedding was for true love or a publicity stunt.

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eurospace
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posted 08-13-2003 11:25 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for eurospace   Click Here to Email eurospace     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by kosmonavtka:
Haven't seen a mention or photo of the wedding on the NASA or Energiya sites yet. Guess the grumpy old fuddy-duddies in Management are going to ignore it.

Indeed marriages are private business. Neither the ceremony nor the exercise of marital duties are something space agencies pay for, nor the use of contraceptives, whether they are of medical nature, or simply by physical distance between the partners. Have you seen NASA care about any other marriages of their astronaut employees, or how and when they were organized?

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kosmonavtka
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posted 08-14-2003 04:33 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for kosmonavtka     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Well, none of them took place in space! And NASA did make a big fuss about Ed Lu's birthday (heaps of photos in the ISS gallery with those silly Hawaiian shirts), but no mention of the wedding. Seems a bit churlish.

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