do the men and women in the orbiting space station or shuttles have sex in space?

Answer 1

1) The environment is pretty well monitored (cameras, sensors). Sudden increase in heat, perspiration, noise...

2) the place is kind of cramped (difficult to get privacy).

3) the act itself would be difficult: on Earth, a lot of the work is done using gravity. In a weightless environment, both partners would have to be constancly pushing against walls and stuff to keep from drifting apart. No so much fun when the natural thing is to grope each other instead of the wall handles.

4) the result might be messy: fluids flying all over the place instead of simply falling to the floor. Sticky dials. Blotches in strange places.

"It's all fun until someone puts out an eye" (Mom)

Answer 2

The answer is a very probable YES. There has even been a married couple in space before.

Face it. People like sex and some spend over six months at a time in the International Space Station. They recycle their pee and feces for water. Sex is definately not going to be a problem for them. Of course, they will deny it as it will hurt the image of the space program.

Answer 3

There is no documented evidence to suggest that it has occured. The shuttle is very cramped with no space for privacy. A greater chance for it to occur would be on the space station. They are up in space for longer periods of time and do have a couple of seperate compartments.

Answer 4

The one report that comes closest to a YES answer is the story that has circulated for years about one of the early Soviet orbital missions. Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space and a crew member of the worlds first space flight with more than one cosmonaut aboard. Supposedly the USSR selected a woman for this flight with the express assignment of testing to see if copulation in space is feasible. No word on the results yet, to my knowledge.

Answer 5

If they do, nobody is admitting to it. Not even the married couple who flew on the same shuttle flight admit to it. But then you wouldn't expect them to admit it, even if it did happen, would you? NASA really frowns on that kind of talk, and any astronaut who publicly admitted to having sex in space would never fly again. And flying again is the #1 goal of all astronauts, way WAY more important than sex.
By the way, there is zero privacy in the Shuttle and almost zero in the space station, so if they did it, they had onlookers!

Answer 6

As their designed at present, no area holiday might want to attain the moon. no longer in reality that, yet there is no sturdy reason to placed an section station around the moon. less severe priced to construct a station on the moon. more reasonable 'reason many of the raw components mandatory might want to properly be mined and processed from the moon itself. the in reality ingredient that couldn't be executed at a station on the moon might want to be 0-gee experiments, yet then we've were given the international area Station for that.

Answer 7

Probably not, considering all of the medical monitors. And think about clean up! But don't tell anyone at science fiction conventions.

Answer 8

Yeah, space sex is cool man. It's hard to do though. You'd be surprised how much lack of gravity comes into play. Hand jobs can be a real problem.

Answer 9

I sincerely doubt it as none of them are 'couples' when they leave Earth!

James Bond is the only guy I've ever 'known' to have weightless space sex!

Have a great weekend!

Answer 10

I would bet it was actually planned as one of the experiments. Plus they are unique members of the 100 mile high club.