RUSSIAN cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station (news - web sites) stop him from marrying his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.
The couple wed Sunday before family and friends in a private ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Malenchenko took part via video. Texas law allows weddings in which one of the parties is not present.
**** UNDER THE LAWS ON TEXAS!!!!!!!!
The honeymoon will have to wait until after Malenchenko, who wore a bow tie with his blue space suit, returns to Earth in late October. They plan a RUSSIAN Orthodox wedding sometime next year.
He is a RUSSIAN air force colonel who stayed aboard space station Mir for four months in 1994. She left RUSSIA for the United States with her parents when she was 3 and lives in Houston.
After their relationship began, Malenchenko, 41, returned to RUSSIA to train for his upcoming space mission, but the two continued their courtship via telephone. The cosmonaut proposed in December.
Officials with the RUSSIAN Aerospace Agency had tried to convince Malenchenko to delay the wedding until he returned to Earth, citing legal complexities and Soviet-era rules requiring military officers to get permission to marry foreigners.
*** IDIOTS!!!!!
The air force chief, Col. Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov, reportedly said a "cosmonaut mustn't behave like a movie star."
*** DOUBLE IDIOTS!!!!
RUSSIAN officials ultimately gave their blessing but said other cosmonauts won't be able to do the same and such rules will be included in future preflight contracts.
In RUSSIA on Sunday, Malenchenko's father, Ivan, told the state-run television channel ROSSIYA that the space wedding had made the cosmonaut's mother, Nina, cry and said "what is this needed for — a sensation for the whole world?"
HIS PARENTS ARE PENSIONEERS IN A UKRAINIAN VILLAGE.
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2003.08.11 | Морон
RUSSIAN (!) одружується в космосі. ПОЗДОРОВЛЯЄМО!
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_re_us/space_marriage_3EXCERPTS:
RUSSIAN cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko didn't let the fact that he's living aboard the international space station (news - web sites) stop him from marrying his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.
The couple wed Sunday before family and friends in a private ceremony at Johnson Space Center in Houston, where Malenchenko took part via video. Texas law allows weddings in which one of the parties is not present.
**** UNDER THE LAWS ON TEXAS!!!!!!!!
The honeymoon will have to wait until after Malenchenko, who wore a bow tie with his blue space suit, returns to Earth in late October. They plan a RUSSIAN Orthodox wedding sometime next year.
He is a RUSSIAN air force colonel who stayed aboard space station Mir for four months in 1994. She left RUSSIA for the United States with her parents when she was 3 and lives in Houston.
After their relationship began, Malenchenko, 41, returned to RUSSIA to train for his upcoming space mission, but the two continued their courtship via telephone. The cosmonaut proposed in December.
Officials with the RUSSIAN Aerospace Agency had tried to convince Malenchenko to delay the wedding until he returned to Earth, citing legal complexities and Soviet-era rules requiring military officers to get permission to marry foreigners.
*** IDIOTS!!!!!
The air force chief, Col. Gen. Vladimir Mikhailov, reportedly said a "cosmonaut mustn't behave like a movie star."
*** DOUBLE IDIOTS!!!!
RUSSIAN officials ultimately gave their blessing but said other cosmonauts won't be able to do the same and such rules will be included in future preflight contracts.
In RUSSIA on Sunday, Malenchenko's father, Ivan, told the state-run television channel ROSSIYA that the space wedding had made the cosmonaut's mother, Nina, cry and said "what is this needed for — a sensation for the whole world?"
HIS PARENTS ARE PENSIONEERS IN A UKRAINIAN VILLAGE.
2003.08.11 | litovka
Re: Стыдно за него! Устроил шоу,.. (-)
2003.08.12 | Адвокат ...
Стидно,-- у коґо відно. Заздриш, дє'вчка? ( - )
2003.08.12 | Гюрза
У тебя с головой все нормально? не простудился?:-)(-)