Xref: utzoo soc.couples:5597 sci.space.shuttle:7990 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!stanford.edu!eos!aio!aio.jsc.nasa.gov!mll From: mll@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (Mark Littlefield) Newsgroups: soc.couples,sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Best position for pregnancy Message-ID: <1991Jun5.175954.24544@aio.jsc.nasa.gov> Date: 5 Jun 91 17:59:54 GMT References: <8944@pbhyf.PacBell.COM> <1991May23.112037*cindy@solan.unit.no> <19700@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <1991May27.183119.26625@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <35232@mimsy.umd.edu> Sender: news@aio.jsc.nasa.gov (USENET News System) Reply-To: mll@aio.jesnet.jsc.nasa.gov Followup-To: soc.couples, sci.space.shuttle Organization: Lockheed ESC/NASA JSC Lines: 74 In article <35232@mimsy.umd.edu>, jerrys@mobby.umiacs.umd.edu (Jerry Sobieski) writes: |> In article <1991May27.183119.26625@nntp-server.caltech.edu> dp@deimos.caltech.edu writes: |> >In article <19700@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) writes... |> >> |> >>Speaking of gravity, want to bet that when a married couple are sent |> >>in to space one of the 'experiements' that will be 'announced' is |> >>sex and related activities? |> > |> >Any space |> >"hanky-panky" will be strictly non-official (and difficult, since the |> >interior of a shuttle orbiter doesn't have too many private cubbyholes). |> >I doubt any such activities by humans will happen until more private |> >accomodations are available (small private rooms will be on the space |> >station). |> (stuff deleted...) |> These people (astronauts) are risk takers. I would be surprised if there |> wasn't already a 100 mile high club. Getting "caught", particularly if |> the couple are married (to each other:-), is not likely something that will |> worry them. (even more stuff deleted...) Just a couple of points. NASA has a strict policy of not flying married couples. This is not that NASA officials are prudish, it's simply to keep a family from being devastated in the event of a catastrophic accident. This rule has been waved for a mission scheduled for early next year, however. A couple who were scheduled and have been training for a mission for some time (couple of years), ran off and got married a few months ago. NASA had a problem in that it was ALMOST too late to rearrange and retrain the crew. It was finally decided that, since there are no children involved, the couple would be allowed to fly together. (sorry, cannot remember the couple's names or the mission, if anyone is SUPREMELY interested, I'll look it up). |> |> |> >However, I have no doubt that some moronic reporter will ask |> >this very type of question during the couple's flight (somewhat embarassing |> >them, I imagine). I'd bet you that no human sexual experiments will be |> >"officially announced" by NASA (probably ever). |> |> I don't think its a moronic question any more than Chuck Robb's tryst |> with Miss Virginia, Gary Hart's monkey business, etc. Astronauts, alas, |> are public figures on expensive space missions. What they do up there is |> not entirely their own business. NASA may never announce/plan a mission |> in the near future to study copulation dynamics of the human species until |> it has been done informally and the stated intention won't raise |> further eyebrows. |> |> What's moronic is a nation that is too inhibited to allow such an |> announcement. |> You bet your buns that nothing like this will be "officially" carried out by NASA. Space flight is an EXTREMELY costly activity and John Q. Public won't stand and watch his hard earned tax money go to make films of some couple "diddling" in micro-G. No, when it does happen (did happen???), it will be very quiet and private. -- ===================================================================== Mark L. Littlefield Automation and Robotics Division internet: mll@aio.jsc.nasa.gov Intelligent Systems Branch USsnail: Lockheed Engineering and Sciences 2400 Nasa Rd 1 / MS 19 Houston, TX 77058-3711 ====================================================================