Posted on 07/16/2008 11:48:37 PM PDT by Red Steel
America must begin preparing astronauts for sex in space if it is serious about sending people to Mars, according to a Nasa adviser.
Dr Jason Kring said astronauts might have to emulate polar explorers and take a colleague as a lover for the duration of their three-year mission, to minimise sexual frustration.
Dr Kring, who is studying the best sex balance of crews for the next wave of space travel, is an assistant professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. The university counts several astronauts and fighter pilots among its former students. His findings are due to be published by Nasa’s history division.
Dr Kring said the American space agency needed to study the practicalities of sex and pregnancy in space and should factor the need for privacy into the design of spacecraft intended to return to the Moon after 2015. The same vehicles are expected to fly to Mars to set up a permanent manned base in the following decade. He made the suggestion on Space.com, a website dealing with space issues.
He told The Sunday Telegraph: "The men and women whom we select to go back to the Moon, and on to Mars, will be professionals.
"But the bottom line is that, like hunger and thirst, sex is a basic biological motive. The potential round-trip mission to Mars could take three years. It doesn’t make sense to assume that these men and women are going to have no thoughts of it for three years. Nasa and other space agencies should address this in their training and in crew selection."
Even when at its closest to Earth, Mars is always at least 45 million miles away - 180 times further than the Moon.
Dr Kring's research involves placing highly trained pilots and military personnel in stressful situations and confined
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
Oh, Please. Just take a cold meteor shower.
I hate you. ;)
What provision will be made for the gay, lesbian, and trans-gendered astronauts for their fulfillment? Lambda Legal should file a lawsuit immediately to make sure that equal rights are given to homosexual astronauts.
I dunno. Some people get smarter when abstaining, some smarter with increased sexual activity.
Case solved. I’m impotent for at least the next 24 months... ;-)
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In space no one can hear you scream...
In supermarkets: “I Went To Mars With Him”
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Hysterical! ;-D
All that does is imply sex in the office is also an alternative.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
LOL .... too cruel.
you guys are ‘killing me’.
The biggest difficulty of sex in space is locating the Zero G-Spot.
funny how sex is only an issue for people being seperated from others via space for three years or so, but not a problem for people being seperated from others via jail, or even extended military deployments.
There is a special black hole in space with your name on it.
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