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Space Wedding Successful

Posted by michael on from the ground-control-to-major-tom dept.

The Llama King writes "Love transcends all, including gravity, the atmosphere and orbital altitudes. According to this story at the Houston Chronicle, "Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station stop him from marrying his bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev." The bride was at Johnson Space Center near Houston, while the groom circled 240 miles above her. The honeymoon will have to wait."

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  1. The wedding is the easy part... by vudufixit · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Making a marriage work till death
    do you part - now *that's* a challenge.

  2. Interesting... by Keebler71 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I find it interesting that the Russian Space Agency objected to this because they thought he was showboating and it would be an unappropriate, yet seem to have no problem launching boy-band members into space if they have the coin.

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    "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance." - Thomas Sowell
  3. A little early to tell by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    It's hard to say that this wedding is successful. After all, they are just married. It will take a couple years of dish throwing and trips to the hospital and county lockup before we can say one way or another whether this was a successful match up.