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Space Sex Is Serious Business
FiveThirtyEight ^ | 14 Mar 2017 | Maggie Koerth-Baker

Posted on 03/14/2017 11:56:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT

...And so, in September 1992, Lee and Davis became the first (and, after the unwritten rule became a written one, possibly last) married couple in space. NASA says no humans have had sex in space. There’s nothing other than speculation to suggest otherwise. NASA has acknowledged the gaps in what we know about the impacts of long-duration spaceflight. In 2014, for instance, it commissioned a team studded with health experts and retired astronauts to write a National Academies report advising the agency on how best to ethically approach long-duration spaceflight situations where the very nature of the mission would mean that astronauts must violate current NASA workplace safety standards. The 2014 National Academies report advised NASA to put more resources into caring for, and monitoring, the health of retired astronauts. “Believe it or not, there’s no provision for lifetime health care for astronauts,”

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The Birds and the Bees and NASA?
1 posted on 03/14/2017 11:56:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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hey NASA wanna bet?


2 posted on 03/14/2017 12:01:18 PM PDT by tom paine 2
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What about mozlum outreach though?


3 posted on 03/14/2017 12:01:20 PM PDT by bicyclerepair (MAGA)
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4 posted on 03/14/2017 12:02:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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Space Sex Is Serious Business

And as another Freeper once posted, space sex "leads to a constant argument of who is on top."


5 posted on 03/14/2017 12:04:18 PM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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Is that something like giving a flying .....?


6 posted on 03/14/2017 12:06:32 PM PDT by Bob (Damn, the democrats haven't been this upset since Republicans freed their slaves.)
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To: DUMBGRUNT
Wouldn't bodily fluids float around the craft while in space?

"Commander...please tell me that's just water."


7 posted on 03/14/2017 12:07:15 PM PDT by moovova
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when I saw the heading I thought it was a space tourism article.... maybe the first orbital space bordello... you can bet jus like the internet it will be the first place where anyone is making money.


8 posted on 03/14/2017 12:07:26 PM PDT by PCPOET7 (in)
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Come on! Who DOESN’T wanna get it on in zero gravity? That’s gotta be challenging


9 posted on 03/14/2017 12:07:38 PM PDT by jbrown7.62x39 (Holy crap. We really are gonna MAGA!! What a great time to be alive!)
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The more data that comes in about the perils of space travel the more I’m coming to be persuaded than man simply isn’t meant to go far from Earth.


10 posted on 03/14/2017 12:09:57 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: jbrown7.62x39

Exactly. Every time somebody mentions the “mile high club” they’re thinking “amateurs.”


11 posted on 03/14/2017 12:11:14 PM PDT by Hoffer Rand (God be greater than the worries in my life, be stronger than the weakness in my mind, be magnified.)
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That’s gotta be challenging

New applications for Velcro...

12 posted on 03/14/2017 12:11:21 PM PDT by Magnum44 (My comprehensive terrorism plan: Hunt them down and kill them)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

The urge to have sex and reproduce is fundamental to human life. No way astronauts on a long term voyage to Mars and presumably a long stay on the planet will not have sex. That raises lots of questions about all kinds of subjects.


13 posted on 03/14/2017 12:12:03 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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I kinda dont believe nasa on that one.


14 posted on 03/14/2017 12:13:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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Can be done on the zero-G flights. From their website: “ 15 parabolas are flown for an approximate weightless time of eight minutes”. More than enough time.


15 posted on 03/14/2017 12:17:16 PM PDT by palmer (turn into nonpaper w no identifying heading and send nonsecure)
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That does it for me. If we can’t have sex in space, then I’m not going.


16 posted on 03/14/2017 12:17:52 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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"For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction."

That would make it interesting, for sure!

17 posted on 03/14/2017 12:18:33 PM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

That, and the amount of energy required to get anywhere quickly.


18 posted on 03/14/2017 12:18:47 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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From their website: “ 15 parabolas are flown for an approximate weightless time of eight minutes”. More than enough time

Are you bragging? LOL

19 posted on 03/14/2017 12:19:18 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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Have they done any testing of fetal development in zero-G?
Would the kid have bones or just cartilage?


20 posted on 03/14/2017 12:21:19 PM PDT by BuffaloJack ("If you're going through Hell, keep going." Winston Churchill)
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