Posted on 07/24/2006 6:15:49 PM PDT by KevinDavis
LAS VEGAS - Having sex in the weightlessness of outer space is the stuff of urban legends and romantic fantasy — but experts say that there would be definite downsides as well.
Spacesickness, for instance. And the difficulty of choreographing intimacy. And the potential for sweat and other bodily fluids to, um, get in the way.
"The fantasy might be vastly superior to the reality," NASA physician Jim Logan said here Sunday at the Space Frontier Foundation's NewSpace 2006 conference. Nevertheless, Logan and others say the study of sex and other biological basics in outer space will be crucial to humanity's long-term push into the final frontier.
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I'm thinking ping pong against the drapes.
How is this different from lovers swapping spit when grounded by gravity?
One thing we can be assured of, someone, somewhere, at sometime will figure out a way to do IT in orbit.(if they haven't already.)
200 mile high club, potential member.
Fluids could float away in zero g...
i'd like to find out for myself... :)
Echo Talon<---Single/Male/Minnesota... hehe
Honey...It's a space trick. It's just floating. :-)
I can not give a source for it, but I do recall a news story decades ago from the USSR that they had sent a married couple into space to conceive a child. Supposedly, they succeeded. Don't remember anything else. Don't really know if it is true. It is just something I remember hearing. Anyone else remember this story?
Does weightlessness throw off the rhythm method?
We solved this problem with the rotating gravity-simulator thingiebob, right?
We did launch the only know married couple aboard an early shuttle flight. Perhaps they were part of a detailed test objective to find out how things work in zero g.
The docking mneuvers of weightlessness will require extensive practise in orbital physics and inertial guidence. A partner who has more mass than the other may confound orbital insertion of the stasis probe unless the proper inertial guidance is assumed by the other.
On the other hand, various rotational techniques on the part of the docking party might assure an extended period of mutual excitement as the docking sequence is planned and trajectories are exchanged. Retro-rockets are discouraged.
NASA=North American Spatio-sexual Association.
Bringing America the "Right Stuff" since 1959.
Another reason for using a condom.
And there is another problem. The nearest phramacy is so far away...
Rutan and/or Space Adventures will probably be happy to sell you the experience shortly. Rutan was boasting this very thing a couple years ago at the U of Texas shortly after his glorious achievement with the X Prize. Maybe they'll provide the space-concubine and you'll just have to buy one ticket. It's outside the twelve-mile limit, after all, and will not be subject to US law.
rintense <--- single/chick/Michigan
PMS every 63 minutes?
If it was in Pravda, it had to be true. < /s >
I'm sure our intrepid astronaut corps hasn't let the opportunity go by ... after all, being the first human to consummate a sexual relationship in space is an opportunity hard to pass up . The astronaut corps could probably give you a couple of names ... Sally Ride & Judith Resnick ... speculation, of course ... but rumored, may have been the first women ... who their partners might have been even more speculative ... however, someone knows.
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