LUST IN SPACE

NASA continues to deny this, the Russians just smile.   I would think this has crossed most of our minds at least once.  What would love making be like in space, weightless, among the stars, and among 3 or four other crewmates who promise not too look or listen?  Even if NASA or the Russian RKA did not sanction such experiments (where does one volunteer anyway?)  the curiousity of human nature, and human hormones I think would have gotten the better of the astronauts/cosmosnauts. 

ASTRONAUTS TEST SEX IN SPACE -- BUT DID THE EARTH MOVE?

by John Henly, The Guardian, UK, on line edition

US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published yesterday.

Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is taboo both at Nasa and at mission control in Moscow, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.

 

"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."

He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX (this has to be a typo, wouldn't the codenamed actually be STS-XXX?) was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.

 

 

 

This is carrying the experiments a little to far!!!

 

 

Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs (I cannot believe they called our astronauts "guinea pigs"!!!!)  then tested them in real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped (hard to believe that has not leaked out yet!!)but are considered so sensitive that even Nasa was only given a censored version."

 

Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.

 

 

 

 

Mr Kohler says: "One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible