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11 August 2003 - Monday - The first "space wedding" is
all over the
news, but
you'd never know it from today's
NASA report:
Lu
Prepares for PFMI Experiment Runs
 Aboard
the International Space Station, Expedition 7 NASA ISS Science Officer Ed
Lu made preparations Monday for upcoming operations with the
Pore Formation and Mobility Investigation, or PFMI. Lu set up hardware
in the Microgravity Science Glovebox and familiarized himself with
experiment operations. PFMI is a material science experiment in which
scientists hope "to gain insights that will improve solidification
processing in a microgravity environment."
 Meanwhile,
Commander Yuri Malenchenko replaced a conditioning unit in a Russian
processor and took air samples in the Station. Both crewmembers performed
maintenance on the ISS treadmill and took part in a Russian medical
experiment that is measuring their calf volume and body mass.
The public can now send
questions to
the ISS Mission Control Team, who will answer selected questions periodically.
Read Astronaut Ed Lu's latest
letter from the Space Station. Also, check out ISS photos of the
Montana forest fires.
Yuri Malenchenko, the
Space Station's commander,
got married
yesterday to
his
American sweetheart,
Ekaterina Dmitriev
(who was born in the Soviet Union and moved to the U.S. as a child). The
marriage ceremony, performed over a
video linkup, happened over the
objections of
Russian space brass (and the
groom's bewildered parents), who accused
Malenchenko of
"behaving like a movie star."
They have
already stated
that this will be the
last space
wedding. After the
long-distance ceremony (video
here),
the ISS crew went
back to work on Station maintenance.
Where will
the couple live once they get together in October?
For earlier coverage, see Part 2 of our Mission Journal.
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