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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: SkyPilot

Then she said, is that a Rocket in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?


41 posted on 03/14/2017 11:05:26 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: I want the USA back

Sex will be allowed between anyone in any manner.

o sleep with ne eye open. If they are going to colonize and have martian kids, they will have a whole new set of ground rules and train people before they launch, pun intended.


42 posted on 03/14/2017 11:05:47 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I heard the Sex in the Spaceship Shower scene doesn’t go too well in the new Prometheus Sequel.


43 posted on 03/14/2017 11:07:33 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Did you here it from the pod next door. LOL.


44 posted on 03/14/2017 11:08:38 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: Kickass Conservative

>>>I heard the Sex in the Spaceship Shower scene doesn’t go too well in the new Prometheus Sequel.<<<

I forgot to add, let’s just say three’s a crowd.


45 posted on 03/14/2017 11:08:40 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: Tenacious 1

You had sex on a roller coaster? How did that surprise photo they always take come out?


46 posted on 03/14/2017 11:33:32 PM PDT by Yaelle
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To: Squantos

Mile High Clubbers................


47 posted on 03/15/2017 6:09:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (If "Majority Rule" was so important in South Africa, why isn't it that way here?.......)
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To: Buckeye Battle Cry

Beat me to it. :)


48 posted on 03/15/2017 6:16:44 AM PDT by OKSooner (It's always loaded.)
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To: Magnum44

Giant rubber bands, I’m thinking.


49 posted on 03/15/2017 11:32:44 AM PDT by gogeo (When your life is based on a false premise...you are indeed insane.)
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To: Yaelle
You had sex on a roller coaster? How did that surprise photo they always take come out?

Maybe my punctuation (or lack thereof) threw you. Riding a roller coaster is the "Intense" part where one could experience weightlessness.

50 posted on 03/16/2017 12:54:14 PM PDT by Tenacious 1 (You couldn't pay me enough to be famous for being stupid!)
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