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ISS wedding is on
Posted: Tue, Aug 5, 2003, 6:54 PM ET (2254 GMT)
ISS illustration (NASA) Russian officials have given their approval for a Russian cosmonaut to participate in a wedding ceremony on the International Space Station this weekend. Last month Ekaterina Dmitriev received a marriage license in the state of Texas to marry Yuri Malenchenko, a cosmonaut on the station. The marriage ceremony was scheduled for August 10, with Malenchenko participating via a telephone link with the station, as allowed under Texas law. However, Russian officials said they could not allow the ceremony to take place for a variety of reasons, ranging from a lack of explicit consent for such ceremonies in ISS regulations to the requirement that Malenchenko, a Russian Air Force officer, get permission before marrying a foreign citizen. Rosaviakosmos officials blocked any opposition they had to the ceremony on Tuesday, though; Sergei Gorbunov told the AP that "He [Malenchenko] wants it, and he will have it — that's his problem." The wedding ceremony, while valid in Texas, may not be valid in Russia, but the couple had previously planned on holding another wedding ceremony in Russia next year.
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