STS-106 was a 2000 Space Shuttle mission to the International Space Station flown by Space Shuttle Atlantis.
Malenchenko outside Zarya during an EVA
Left to right: Front row – Altman and Wilcutt; Back row – Morukov, Mastracchio, Lu, Burbank, Malenchenko.Space Shuttle program← STS-101 (98)STS-92 (100) →
Launch of the Space Shuttle Atlantis and the beginning of the STS-106 mission.
Yuri Ivanovich Malenchenko is a retired Russian cosmonaut. 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
STS-106
…in a Soyuz capsule from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a four-month "shakedown" mission aboard the ISS. On flight day three, Dr. Ed Lu and Yuri Malenchenko (Col., Russian Air Force), who were both making their second flights into space, conducted a 6-hour and 14 minute space walk. The spacewalk's objective…
Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 7 commander inside the Zvezda Module of the ISS.
Yuri Malenchenko, Expedition 16 Flight Engineer inside the Zvezda Module of the ISS.
Expedition 16 flight engineer Yuri Malenchenko participates in a spacewalk.