Yuri Malenchenko

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко ; born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko was born in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Malenchenko graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993. Malenchenko became the first person to marry in space, on 10 August 2003, when he married Ekaterina Dmitri... more

Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko (Russian: Юрий Иванович Маленченко ; born December 22, 1961) is a Ukrainian-Russian cosmonaut. Malenchenko was born in Svitlovodsk, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR. Malenchenko graduated from the Kharkov Military Aviation School in 1983, and attended the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy, graduating in 1993. Malenchenko 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. less