NASA SEX BAN RULES OUT THE EARTH MOVING FOR ASTRONAUTS IN SP

[Daanyeer]

Nasa sex ban rules out the Earth moving for astronauts in space
By Mail Online Reporter
29th June 2010


Hundreds of miles above the Earth and with scant company for months at a time, you could forgive an astronaut for wanting to indulge in some carnal comforts.
After all, surely a physical encounter of the first kind would be both a small step and a giant leap for mankind?

But Nasa yesterday ruled out letting its space explorers have sex while in orbit.

When asked at a Tokyo press conference if there is room for romance on board the cosy confines of the International Space Station, Shuttle Discovery commander Alan Poindexter's reply was straight to the point.
'We are a group of professionals,' he told a reporter who enquired about the consequences if astronauts boldly went where probably no others have been before.
'We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not... an issue.
'We don't have them and we won't.'


Poindexter and his six crew members, including the first Japanese mother in space Naoko Yamazaki, were in Tokyo to talk about their two-week resupply mission to the International Space Station.
The April voyage broke new ground by putting four women in orbit for the first time, with three female crew joining one woman already on the station.
Sex in space may appear out of bounds, but astronauts have been known to succumb to earthly passions.
In 2007 former NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak allegedly wore adult diapers when driving hundreds of miles across the U.S. without bathroom breaks to confront a suspected rival in a romance with a fellow astronaut.


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[zulaika]

they could say, its a scientific experiment to see what it would feel like doing it up there?