NASA test sex in space

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Astronauts test sex in space - but did the earth move? | Science | The Guardian

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.
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* Jon Henley in Paris
* The Guardian
* Thursday February 24 2000

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Most female astronauts look like this guys:

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Space doggy style.
It must actually be rather hilarious to watch, every time he tries to pump, they go flying against the walls.
 
Bounty said:
Try reading both articles in full.

Edit: Nevermind, I apparently needed to take my own advice. I see what you're getting at.

Oh, and I guess maybe The Guardian had been had?
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I had read that Snopes article awhile ago and then saw that same article posted on Digg at some point. I realized pretty quickly that the Guardian had pretty read an e-rumor and made it into a news story.
 
I'd think any position would work as long as you had a good grip on each other.

Sure every movement would send you the other way with the same force but that would work both ways. So as long as you could hold on if you were floating in the middle of the room then you would stay in about the same area.
 
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