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10 August, 2003

On 10th August 2003, Yuri Malenchenko became the first person to marry in outer space. The Russian cosmonaut married Ekaterina Dmitrieva who was in Texas at that time. Malenchenko was on the International Space Station, 240 miles over New Zealand.