Honeymoon must wait as bride weds cosmonaut

The new bride blew the groom a kiss and he blew one back – from about 240 miles away.

The new bride blew the groom a kiss and he blew one back – from about 240 miles away.

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Malenchenko didn’t let the fact that he’s living aboard the international space station stop him from marrying his earthbound bride, Ekaterina Dmitriev, in the first wedding ever conducted from space.

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