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From: drudetb@infonode.ingr.com (Ted B. Drude)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: married astronauts to fly together?
Message-ID: <1991Feb1.223556.2313@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 1 Feb 91 22:35:56 GMT
Organization: Intergraph Corp. Huntsville, AL
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>A much more likely source of trouble than the psychiatrists is management
>worried about the reaction from the religious Right.  It is not an accident
>that none of the married couples has ever flown together.

Oh really? That means NASA has deliberately kept married astronauts from
being on the same flight before,  right?  Do you have any objective
source for this or are you just blowing some weird biased smoke out of
your own brain?

There might be some folks who would get a bit upset over a non-married
couple having sex in orbit for experimental purposes at taxpayer expense
(which,  as some have asserted on the net,  has occurred on previous
flights).  But name ONE member of the "Religious Right" (or any other
religious ""Direction" for that matter) that would  object to a MARRIED
couple being together,  whether on  earth or in orbit,  in either a
conjugal or non-conjugal sense.  

A more likely scenario is that NASA has just never thought about the
ramifications of a married couple being on a mission together at all. 
They will probably "study" the issue for a while and conclude that
nobody in their right mind should have any objections,  be they
religious or not.