Fun on the space station

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This video is a couple years old. Life in orbit can be fun.

LiveLeak.com - Inside the space station.

[coldsteal2]

I wonder if they ever had sex up there?
240 Mile high club hahah

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Originally Posted by coldsteal2

I wonder if they ever had sex up there?
240 Mile high club hahah

I doubt it, they're very professional. No husband/wife astronaut couple have ever been in space as far as I know.

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Eating looks like it's more fun in space. I wish I was there.

[brianugly]

That looks pretty fun!

[Engel]

Originally Posted by Adwex

I doubt it, they're very professional. No husband/wife astronaut couple have ever been in space as far as I know.

You don't have to be husband and wife to screw. I'm sure they do, just very discreetly.

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Originally Posted by Engel

You don't have to be husband and wife to screw. I'm sure they do, just very discreetly.

Nah, I'm tellin' ya, these people are the ultimate professionals, they don't "mess around". Especially since it's a high profile occupation...the whole world is watching, and there are cameras all over the place in there. I watch them all the time here:
http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/index.html

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what about the Russians ?

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US and Russian astronauts have had sex in space for separate research programmes on how human beings might survive years in orbit, according to a book published yesterday.

Pierre Kohler, a respected French scientific writer, says in The Final Mission: Mir, The Human Adventure that the subject is taboo both at Nasa and at mission control in Moscow, but that cosmic couplings have taken place.

"The issue of sex in space is a serious one," he says. "The experiments carried out so far relate to missions planned for married couples on the future International Space Station, the successor to Mir. Scientists need to know how far sexual relations are possible without gravity."

He cites a confidential Nasa report on a space shuttle mission in 1996. A project codenamed STS-XX was to explore sexual positions possible in a weightless atmosphere.

Twenty positions were tested by computer simulation to obtain the best 10, he says. "Two guinea pigs then tested them in real zero-gravity conditions. The results were videotaped but are considered so sensitive that even Nasa was only given a censored version."

Only four positions were found possible without "mechanical assistance". The other six needed a special elastic belt and inflatable tunnel, like an open-ended sleeping bag.

Mr Kohler says: "One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible

Sex in space is human sexual activity in weightless and extreme environments of space. The act of human intimacy, sexual intercourse, and procreation distinguished by the state of weightlessness (precluding artificial gravity) presents difficulties surrounding the performing of most sexual activities due to Newton's Third Law. The topic also includes conception and pregnancy in off-Earth environments.

The topic has been hotly disputed to clarify its potential impact on human beings in the isolated, confined, and hazardous environment of space. Past discussions often included attempts to determine speculations (e.g., about the STS-47 mission, on which married astronauts Mark C. Lee and Jan Davis flew), and even hoaxes, such as Document 12-571-3570.

Experts such as Princeton astrophysics professor Dr. J. Richard Gott consider humanity's expansion into space crucial to survival[1], but it was considered taboo for decades of space faring exploration history.[2][3]

As of 2009, with NASA planning long-term missions for lunar settlements with goals to explore and colonize space, the topic has taken its respected place in life sciences. Scientist Stephen Hawking publicly concurred in 2007 that possibly human survival itself will depend on successfully contending with the extreme environments of space