YURI MALENCHENKO

'Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko' (, ; born December 22, 1961 in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast of Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian cosmonaut of Ukrainian descent.
He flew on the following missions:
#Soyuz TM-19 Commander 04.11.1994 - 125d 22h 53m
#STS-106 Mission Specialist 20.09.2000 - 11d 19h 12m
#Soyuz TMA-2 / ISS 'Expedition 7' Commander 28.10.2003 - 184d 22h 46m
He became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August, 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitrieva, who was in Texas, while he was 240 miles over New Zealand, on the International Space Station. Malenchenko is currently assigned to be Flight Engineer 1 on ISS Expedition 16 and Commander for the Soyuz TMA-11 mission that will bring him to the space station.

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★ NASA biography

★ Spacefacts biography of Yuri Malenchenko