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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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To: DUMBGRUNT

Becoming a member of the mile high club really brings out the contortionist in you. I can only imagine doing it in space. I’m thinking you’d have to be pretty much strapped together.


21 posted on 03/14/2017 12:21:29 PM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Obviously NASA will override all previous notions of right/wrong. Sex will be allowed between anyone in any manner. Abortion will be possible if a pregnancy results. There will be suicide pills for anyone who feels the need, or who becomes a burden. On real long flights, this will be the way they get rid of the old astronauts. Provision will be made for dumping bodies into space. On real real long flights, spare astronauts will be carried, in suspended animation, to be revived when needed. On real real real long flights frozen embryos will be carried, to be thawed and raised as non-human astronauts, with no possibility ever of seeing the Earth which is home to them as to us.


22 posted on 03/14/2017 12:21:33 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Liberalism is the denial of human nature.)
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To: palmer

“for an approximate weightless time of eight minutes”

Coming soon to an internet site near you; ZERO G PORN!


23 posted on 03/14/2017 12:22:16 PM PDT by DUMBGRUNT (Go Trump!)
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To: Tenacious 1
It doesn't have to be interplanetary. James Bond did quite well just in Earth orbit...

Sir Frederick Gray, Minister of Defence: "My God, what's Bond doing?"

Q: "I think he's attempting re-entry, sir."

24 posted on 03/14/2017 12:22:17 PM PDT by Ciaphas Cain (The choice to be stupid is not a conviction I am obligated to respect.)
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To: tom paine 2

Yeah. If my wife and I went into space together, there is absolutely no way they could have stopped us, other than 24 hour video surveillance. And even that may not have been enough if we could find a good blanket.


25 posted on 03/14/2017 12:22:48 PM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: grobdriver

Get back over here!


26 posted on 03/14/2017 12:25:18 PM PDT by Mr. Douglas (Best. Election. EVER!)
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To: Ciaphas Cain

I’ve been with women that experienced weightlessness during certain intense activities, like roller coasters for instance.


27 posted on 03/14/2017 12:28:22 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: Mr. Douglas
Yeah. If my wife and I went into space together, there is absolutely no way they could have stopped us, other than 24 hour video surveillance. And even that may not have been enough if we could find a good blanket.

Yeah? If my wife and I went into space together... they likely would have left one of us there. Somebody would have been kicked out early, I'm sure of it.

28 posted on 03/14/2017 12:29:54 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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To: palmer

I think you only get 30 seconds worth before they the plane has to climb again. Still enough time for you? :)


29 posted on 03/14/2017 1:13:08 PM PDT by laker_dad
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To: Mr. Douglas

“I’m thinking you’d have to be pretty much strapped together.”

In some kind of @zz-to-@zz bungee harness. For some reason I’m picturing Christina Applegate in “Married with Children...Now in Space!!!”

;^)


30 posted on 03/14/2017 1:23:08 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam. Buy ammo.")
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Reminds me of the old Jerry Lewis movie - Way, Way Out!


31 posted on 03/14/2017 1:30:57 PM PDT by Buckeye Battle Cry (Charlie, here comes the deuce, and when you speak of me speak well.)
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To: moovova

Not only bodily fluid, but any other debris that is lofted.


32 posted on 03/14/2017 1:42:06 PM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Instructions: 1. Remove lead underwear.


33 posted on 03/14/2017 1:42:43 PM PDT by Chainmail (A simple rule of life: if you can be blamed, you're responsible.)
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To: tom paine 2

No sex? Sort of like marriage after a few years.


34 posted on 03/14/2017 1:55:21 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: SkyPilot
And as another Freeper once posted, space sex "leads to a constant argument of who is on top."

Yeah, that, and every action has an equal and opposite reaction... sex would be painful bouncing around the spacecraft walls if a partner loses their grip.

35 posted on 03/14/2017 1:59:15 PM PDT by roadcat
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To: I want the USA back
Obviously NASA will override all previous notions of right/wrong.

Obama was working on a program to assure that the first space sex was gay space sex.

36 posted on 03/14/2017 2:03:58 PM PDT by Fido969 (IN!)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

Is Outercourse as good as Intercourse?


37 posted on 03/14/2017 2:06:40 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco (My once 6 pack abs are now a keg......)
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To: Mr. Douglas

Same here.;>)


38 posted on 03/14/2017 3:09:34 PM PDT by painter ( Isaiah: �Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,")
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To: Red Badger

Eagles and Skydivers .....


39 posted on 03/14/2017 10:58:02 PM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: DUMBGRUNT

My suggestions. Grab the side rails for traction. Use the condoms so the sperm doesn’t flat into the tang. Not that tang idiot. Hook the boots into the floor for traction. Don’t float away before you take care of your partner.


40 posted on 03/14/2017 11:03:07 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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