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The Astronaut’s Husband

The second half of the space station Expedition 26 crew headed off to work this afternoon, as Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli, and American Cady Coleman were launched on the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Coleman, a two-time shuttle astronaut, began her six-mont…

Tony Reichhardt

December 15, 2010

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The second half of the space station Expedition 26 crew headed off to work this afternoon, as Russian Dmitry Kondratyev, Italian Paolo Nespoli, and American Cady Coleman were launched on the Soyuz TMA-20 spacecraft from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Coleman, a two-time shuttle astronaut, began her six-month tour in space just one day after celebrating her 50th birthday.

And what better husband for an astronaut than Josh Simpson, an artist who makes "megaplanets" of glass:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKdghO7QBnI

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Tony Reichhardt is a senior editor at Air & Space.