I don't believe them!

American Astronauts have had sex in space ... and NASA and the Astronauts have admitted such.

Issue is did sex for American astronauts start with Gemini, Apollo, or the Shuttle?

Read on:

http://www.myfoxdc.com/dpp/news/off...rt-ncxdc-042211

or

http://tinyurl.com/3srgwez


Jonathan

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-Fred Shecter NAR 20117 (L2)
Southern California Rocket Association, NAR Section 430

[citation needed]


I don't doubt it, but I have never seen any public admission by NASA or an astronaut that was either a participant or a direct witness. Speculation? Lots of it. There was at least one shuttle mission (STS-47) with a married heterosexual couple aboard. Why WOULDN't they have taken the opportunity to become charter members of the "200 mile high club"?

It's an issue that will NEED to be addressed before a Mars mission, at any rate.




Hey, what about Mercury? Maybe THAT's what Scotty Carpenter was doing that pissed Chris Kraft off so badly....maybe the constant "thump, thump, thump" was firing the attitude thrusters too much, wasting all that fuel...

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Bob Weiss
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Bob,

I agree; outrageous claims need outrageous proof:


G-2 person sex suit and Michael Collins writing about 1000's of women in spaces with quivering B**Bs:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_in_space

(In this photo, taken during the mission, Lee has his arm around Davis.) Both have refused to answer questions about the nature of their relationship during the mission. In the 1990s, rumors circulated about unorthodox coziness between Elena Kondakova and Valery Polyakov on a mission to the space station Mir, especially after a video got out showing Valery playfully splashing water on Elena during the flight.

The above from: http://www.slate.com/id/2159265/

So no, NASA hasn't come out and said, 'On this orbit on this mission on this date, copulations occurred between X & Y or just X by himself', but if people are splashing each other with water and the crew decides to leave the married couple on the lower deck to sleep while the rest sleep on the upper deck with the hatch closed, anyone with half a brain can figure what is going on; even in space people are attracted to one another.

I remember the Alien selling quote: 'In space, no one can hear you scream!'. That isn't the only thing that can't be heard.

I love what one post made on a blog about the subject:

What happens in space, stays in space! -

Jonathan

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-Fred Shecter NAR 20117 (L2)
Southern California Rocket Association, NAR Section 430

Well Troy,

There are a couple of reasons to care ... no really. Let me explain:

1) I travels to distant planets such as Mars or the other planets, people will have to get along with one another over long periods of time. Sex and other human interactions must be accounted for. The mental and emotional drives that we have as humans here on Earth will be amplified many times due to the small number of possible mates, and their proximity over long periods with one another.

Sex believe it or not has two benefits for humans: a) We continue our species b)It is also used by the female side of the equation to relieve stress in the colony. I know this sounds like a Jane Goodall report, but when stress in the primate colony starts to reach a certain level, females will use sex to throttle it down. Keeps the males from losing their cool and jeopardizing the survival of the colony.

2)Surviving interstellar missions may indeed depend upon generations of flight crews being born in order to operate and maintain the ship. I remember as a young teen reading the Robert Heinlein book, 'Methusela's Children', in which generations of flight crews over 1000's of years were born in their star ship and forgot that they were even aboard a star ship ... very mentally stimulating book indeed!

3)We think we understand the fusion processes in the core of our star (sol) but what if we are wrong and we are forced to literally flee the Earth ... well some of us. Do you send more women than men and if so at what ratios.

You see troy, sex in space may some day be more important than you currently are able to think at. It might indeed be tantamount to our very survival as a species ... maybe

I hope this opens your mind to other possibilities than just doing the 'nasty' in orbit

Jonathan

If you actually cared about the subject for the reasons stated below, why didn't you present the subject this way originally instead of using a National Enquirer headline approach?

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[QUOTE=Cohetero-negro]I don't believe them!

American Astronauts have had sex in space ... and NASA and the Astronauts have admitted such.

Issue is did sex for American astronauts start with Gemini, Apollo, or the Shuttle?

I can't fathom any one of my heros either playing with themselves or each other!

+ 1

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