Dr Rachel Armstrong, speaking at a British Interplanetary Society symposium on the Human Future and Space, said that NASA is trying to figure out how to deal with the natural urge to have sex while on long journeys such as a three-year trip to Mars, where the crew would likely include both men and women.
Personally, I am at a loss as to why NASA would be the least bit concerned about controlling the “natural urges” of their astronauts in space, but then again, in light of how people freaked out when they saw Janet Jackson ’s nipple, I can only imagine what they would do if Houston turned on the big brother camera and caught two astronauts havnig sex in zero gravity.
I can hear the Christian Right already freaking out about how “we brought Satan into space”.
If it was me and I worked for NASA and I caught two astronauts having sex on board the ship I just would record it and sell it on the internet.
Think about it.
NASA’s funding issues would be over. Those nerd's children’s children wouldn’t have to worry about funding.
NASA’s answer to the problem of possible fucking in space is “chemical sterilization of astronauts on longer journeys," Dr Armstrong said.
Are we that sexually repressed that NASA actually gives a damn about whether or not you fuck in space?
Sadly I think the answer to that is simple, yeah we are.
I have to break your heart NASA, but I don’t care what kind of drug you give someone to repress their libido they are going to fuck in space just on general principle.
Who could resist being on Mars and not having sex, if for no other reason than just to say that they had sex on Mars?
I know I couldn't.
Why do you think people fuck on airplanes?
You know the answer to that one. People fuck on airplanes just to say that they did.
They are fucking just so they can say that they had sex at 20,000 feet. The same principle applies in space but it’s only 500 times worse.
Sure in 2304 people won’t be making such a big deal out of having sex on another planet but as far as we know in 2004 no human being has ever busted a nut off the planet earth.
The reason a pill won’t stop this from happening is because this isn’t about a libido this is about bragging rights.
Fucking on Mars would be a human beings way of christening the planet.
You send a man and a woman to Mars and they will fuck each other just so they can be the first people to fuck on another planet.
Plus, who is going to volunteer to take a six month trip just to get to Mars, stay there a year or two and then come back on another six month trip home if they are spoken for?
That's three years! I have heard that long distance relationships are a strain but this would be ridiculous. Do you really think that someone is going to give up sex for three years just because America can’t deal with the knowledge that they might be having sex up there?
I don’t care what a person looks like, anyone of the opposite sex is going to start to look good to you if that is all you have to look at for 3 years or more.
In fact, I wouldn’t be surprised if they come back madly in love.
In 2000, a French author, Pierre Kohler , claimed that he got a hold of a "confidential Nasa report" in 1996 showed that two astronauts had sex at the agency's request as part of tests to see how long humans could survive in space.
However when his book came out NASA flipped out at the suggestion that two of their astronauts had fucked on board a space shuttle, particularly at their instruction.
Then there were allegations that Russia claimed a space first in 1982 when Svetlana Savitskaya shared the Salyut 7 space station with two Russian male colleagues. Online postings say there were "experiments" to try to conceive the first space child. But there is no independent confirmation of this; instead Savitskaya, who was the second woman in space, and the first to carry out a space walk, says in her memoirs that the two male cosmonauts "welcomed me at the hatch with an apron". She threw it aside and "established a working relationship".
According to her "then they went to work".
Hint Hint.
Please, we know what’s happening.