Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!lightning.Berkeley.EDU!fcrary
From: fcrary@lightning.Berkeley.EDU (Frank Crary)
Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: Microgravity Sex Redux (was Re: Best position for pregnancy)
Message-ID: <1991May30.013526.20485@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 30 May 91 01:35:26 GMT
References: <283F8D95.400F@ibma0.cs.uiuc.edu> <1991May27.015128.29378@agate.berkeley.edu> <7870@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root)
Organization: ucb
Lines: 21

In article <7870@ecs.soton.ac.uk> lm89@ecs.soton.ac.uk (McIlhoney L) writes:
>There's a thought : mixed gender flights aren't so uncommon these
>days : how do we know the experiment hasn't already taken place?
>(Behind our backs)
>
We can be reasonably sure that no one has had sex in orbit due to the type
of spacecraft that women have flown on. There are, to date, only 2: The
soviet Salyut 7 (could be 6, I don't remember) and the Space Shuttle. 
I am ignoring the Vostok capsule since this was a one-man craft. There
is/was no real privacy on either of there crafts. All I can think of is
the airlock on the shuttle and the Soyuz craft docked to the soviet space
station. If anyone had tried to have sex in either of these places, EVERYONE
on board would have known about it (e.g. would have seen them go in, for no
other reason, FELT the vibrations (at least on Salyut 7, which can be shook
by jumping up and down.) possible heard them, and seen them come out.) As
a result, the entire crew would have had to have keep quiet. This was 
3 other people in the case of the soviets. For the US, it depends on the
particular shuttle mission. I really doubt that this would have remained
a secret.

					   Frank Crary