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Space Wedding Successful
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."
So, did he kiss the camera or the television screen when the pastor said "the groom may now kiss the bride"?
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Get back to me when the couple is in space together. And post videos.
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I'm sorry, but Successful!?
How the hell would it be unsuccessful - are there technical issues related to communicating vows over a radio link or something... although how did they sign the register?
And consummation, well, you don't want any problems on re-entry I guess - fly me to the moon baby!
What, were you expecting a crash or something to interrupt the wedding?
Weddings are almost always successful. On the other hand, living with shackles for the rest of your life... =P
don't both parties have to sign the marriage register and get it witnessed together for a marriage to be valid?
As a married man I can guarantee him that after about a year he'll be begging to be allowed back on spacestation.... alone.
Thats just funny...oh wait,ummm. This could be my only chance to marry a supermodel.
I'm moving to Texas!!!!
I was under the impression that it's pretty easy to annul an uncomsummated marriage.
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We know who is on top now, but one has to wonder about the honeymoon..
"Texas law allows weddings in which one of the parties is not present. "
Physically absent obviously works, but how about mentally absent? How about both? Could a cardboard cut-out and a talented ventriloquist be all that's needed to wed someone in a coma? Could this lead to a mediocre sequel to "While you were sleeping."? With the wonders of artificial insemination a swinging bachelor could easily wake up from a 20-year coma and immediately face college bills for his kids.
Too bad she can't come up for the honeymoon. If ya know what I mean.
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That must have been one brutal pregnant pause to wait for the radio lag between "Do you take..." and the "I do". I wonder if for a second the thought passed through the poor guy's head..."Is she thinking about it?" I didn't see in the article where he was in orbit. Heck, instead of 380km he could have been more like 6,400 km away or so. Did they wait to do the ceremony until he was more or less overhead? I wonder if this is the farthest apart two people have been when they were married, other than when MJ married Lisa Marie Presley.
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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I can say that 240 miles away from the wife is about as good a honeymoon as you can get.
It has been 15 minutes since a story about love & marriage appeared on Slashdot, and no one has been modded "Insightful" or "Informative" yet.
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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.
I thought that they were botth up there. We could have killed two birds w/ one stone:
1) First space wedding
2) First space fucking
I too have received offers to get hitched with a hot russian woman from a long distance!
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I come here to forget about how horribly lonely I feel... I'm a grade 'A', by the books, no bloody doubt, computer nerd. And as such, I have NO love life... so why must you speak of marriage? I can't even get a damn girlfriend... I'm sitting here reading slashdot to try and forget how miserable an existance I have writing code for a living, with absolutely no social life... and you have the nerve to post a marriage story???
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Many states allow this. The primary purpose is so people in the military who have been called to duty can marry their significant other left back at home ("Gee, I might get killed over here and never see you again... I want to get married now just in case I never get the chance to see you again....") So a serviceman over in Iraq can marry his girlfriend who is still here in the states. Proxies are allowed, too.
Stupid people make stupid things profitable.
Even if you're in space, you cannot escape getting married. So much for my "i'm out of town" excuse.
Marriage is the easy part. The fiery reentry is the hard part. And if you deorbit enough it grows boring from the familiarity.
...remember a certain Lunar park? ;)
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Yes, but the space "consumation of the wedding" will be much harder!
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Can the captain of the ship marry you in space like he can at sea? Captain Kirk did it... No wait, the groom died, didn't he? Hope the cosmonaut isn't wearing a red shirt.
Likely NASA already has a quiet solution to the problem, like those cyanide capsules "Just in Case". Probably it's a $6000 old sock that conforms to milspec.
He said the ceremony was totally lacking in atmosphere.
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Malenchenko: Roger. Yes I do. Over.
[Communication dropped due to slashdot effect.]
Dmitriev: What about me?!?!
Priest: Well, I guess we'll have to try again tomorrow!
Didn't they do this on an episode of MASH?
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That's a long time to wait to "hit it".
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Do you ever walk alone like a drifter in the dark?
to see if they're still together before pronouncing the marriage "successful"?
So, did he kiss the camera or the television screen when the pastor said "the groom may now kiss the bride"?
Before the days of telecommunications, such a wedding would be done by proxy. I do not assume that there would be any kissing or anything, but basically one of the people would designate someone else to go through the ceremony on their behalf.
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had a helicopter hovering above the ISS throughout the ceremony.
" She doesn't get prettier over the years..." Neither do you, and you're gonna start regretting it when you haven't had sex in 40 years. And then there's this thing called "love" that you seem to have no concept of.
...the first space divorce?
/sad but had to be said
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I've always thought that the gift shop at the Smithsonian Museum of Air and Space should sell freeze-dried wedding cake.
Now they'll have to listen to me!.
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Nah, those astronauts aren't like real people. Most are straight as an arrow - you have to be to be in good enough physical and mental shape to do that. Most are likely married. It's highly unlikely that on any given mission, there would be two willing and able participants. It's not like they recruit crack whores for astronauts. Maybe if a married couple were sent... maybe. I'm sure there's rules against cracking open a six pack of Pabst Blue Ribbon and seducing your fellow astronauts.
Though, it would be cool if some porn stars volunteered and were accepted on such a mission. Science would benefit, somehow, as would the world of entertainment.
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The husband looks frighteningly like spoon-bender Uri Geller.
"Sufferin' succotash."
I'm sure NASA would have offered him a seat on the next shuttle coming back. Oh well.....
How long until someone runs in a California gubernatorial recall election while aboard the International Space Station?
The list of candidates for this upcoming recall election was finalized yesterday, and people in space are hardly represented at all. There are 155 candidates on the ballot, so you would think that at least a few of them would be in orbit around the earth right now. But not a single one of them is currently in free fall at the moment, and in fact, not a single member of this opportunist whack-pack has ever been in space at all. In fact, the most space experience any of them has involves a starring role in a Hollywood movie set on Earth and Mars.
Davis, for his part, has never been in space either, and has a consistent record of not hiring spacemen to work for him. In fact, whatever the outcome of the recall election, one thing is certain: the future governor of California will not be running the state from orbit. Is this the kind of future we want for California? Think of the children.
There may be issues with California state law. In a transparently cynical attempt to keep the spacefaring community out of the California political process, the state may require that the candidate appear in person to sign papers registering for the ballot. The 65 signatures can be collected remotely, and the $3500 transferred by wire, so why should the signature remain as an insurmountable problem? I'm sure reasonable states like Texas allow a person to register for the ballot while in space. Other roadblocks thrown in the path of astronauts seeking to join the recall ballot include a 15-day California residency requirement. Davis supporters argue that this is simply to restrict the election to California residents. But when your orbiting spacecraft has been entering and leaving the borders of the state of California at least once a day for hundreds of days, it becomes pretty hypocritical for someone to insist that you haven't racked up your 15.
Voters are tired of "politics as usual". It's time for someone with a fresh perspective on the issues in Sacramento. From 240 miles up, moving by at 17000 miles per hour, through a little glass porthole.
Also, imagine spending your wedding night alone with only your best man. At least they have a room with a view!
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He's wearing a bowtie! Now if that ain't class, I don't know what is. ;)
The wedding was planned a long time before , and before the shuttle disaster and the disruption to the usual schedule and the extended missions.
He may not be allowed up again, but hopefully with some skillful publicity (the video rights were sold), he won't need it. He would certainly not be well paid from the military.
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I can see a small problem: the com-link between them might be line of sight, so he'd be dropping over the horizon just as things started getting good... "da... da!... bozhe moi!"
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May be it's time to learn how the most of the slavic female last (family) names are composed. Yes, I mean her name is not Dmitriev - it's Dmitrieva. Noticed the 'a' at the end? It designates that the name bearer is a woman. And yes - her brother's (if she has a brother) last name is Dmitriev.
Has anybody ever ahd sex in space. I reckon it would be really sweet as. no worrying about whos on top etc. Those russian guys were up there by themselves for a year so masturbation in space must ahve happened.
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The first successful "Space Wedding" will involve both parties being in space, and having a uniquely low-g honeymoon.
The cool part is, there's nothing to really prevent this from happening soon, what with space tourism finally having occured, etc...
It would earn the Russians more than sending boy bands up there, they know the sales of porn since the 70s during which time they had the monopoly.
There might be a space race going between them and Americas. A seperate cargo rocket will carry the viagra.
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Yup, that's what my brain saw. Not wedding, welding.
they should just repeat the Apollo 13 theme
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