International Space Station sex ban

The Telegraph ^ | 9:52AM BST 28 Jun 2010 | Staff

[Candor7]

Commanders do not allow sexual intercourse on the International Space Station, it has been disclosed.

We are a group of professionals," said Alan Poindexter, a NASA commander, during a visit to Tokyo, when asked about the consequences if astronauts boldly went where no others have been.

[Candor7]

Why are two of you flatlining???????Are you off system??

[MozarkDawg]

Ever work in an office with 4 women and 2 men? Not fun

The only thing worse would be 5 : 1, oy, the cat-fights. You're pretty much guaranteeing the intercourse with that.

[jmcenanly]

Aren’t their similar regulations about sea-going vessels?

[Candor7]

Yes, but the immaculate conception rates are very high among female sailors.

[Candor7]

Dorothy (Dottie) Metcalf-Lindenberger

[Candor7]

This Feb. 10 photo provided by NASA shows astronauts, from left: Dorothy Metcalf-Lindenburger, Naoko Yamazaki and Stephanie Wilson during a training session in the Space Vehicle Mock-up Facility at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. Space is about to have a female population explosion. One woman already is circling Earth in a Russian capsule, bound for the International Space Station. Early Monday morning, April 5, 2010, NASA will attempt to launch three more women to the orbiting outpost, along with four men, aboard shuttle Discovery.

[Cvengr]

How soon we forget...

[ErnBatavia]

I could change her ways......I know I could.

[The Comedian]

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[skeptoid]

She kinda looks like a more feminine version of Tammy Bruce.

This one doesn't.

[longtermmemmory]

the mile high club has been shut down for some time since 9-11

[longtermmemmory]

bring on the orion slave girls!!!

The begining part of “stranger in a strange land” covered this. You send married couples.

[Candor7]

Yes, a very bizarre and strange scene. Lets hope it does not translate to out there.

[Candor7]

Who has forgotten?I have not, and I see you haven't either. LOL.

But the issue may be far more complex than you know:

Astronauts may have secretly been required by NASA to have sex with each other.And it may have ALMOST been devulged in the Nowak case. You might ask how that would be described ? Well try this:

According to MSNBC, "Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was 'more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship,' according to an arrest affidavit."

And for some reason Nowak got off very lightly for an attempted murder charge. Go figure.Possibility is that her attachment grew out of an initial job requirement for crew research into long term space travel.

[Only1choice____Freedom]

Are they just now releasing this statement because they finally have a fairly hot astronaut?

[Candor7]

I don’t think its becasue of the hotness factor.Ths article covered a presser in Japan, where such questuons are asked publicly.Here in the USA, the question would never have been asked ( feminism , political correctness etc.). In Japan they are far more candid about such issues, which is why the issue surfaced.

[TigersEye]

Ah, the photo evidence makes it understandable why they had to clarify the rules. They must have had a long list of male volunteers for this mission. ;^)

[jmcenanly]

Of course, most Naval vessels do not have continuous on-line video coverage
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html?param=station

[DBCJR]

Great use of tax dollars! Whatever they spent on those studies, I could have told them for 1/4 of the price!

[MinorityRepublican]

LOL