Veteran shuttle pilot and mission commander Alan Poindexter deftly handled one of the tricky questions that might come up during a globetrotting post-flight P.R. tour: Do astronauts have sex in space.Poindexter, who commanded the STS-131 mission earlier this year, is on tour in Japan with members of his crew, which included mission specialist Naoko Yamazake of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
An International Space Station outfitting mission, the flight was only the third in shuttle program history to include three women -- Yamazake, Stephanie Wilson and Dorothy "Dottie" Metcalf-Lindenburger -- on a crew. The others were STS-40 in 1991 (Rhea Seddon, Tammy Jernigan and Millie Hughes Fulford) and STS-96 in 2001 in 1999 (Jernigan, Ellen Ochoa and Julie Payette).
During a visit in Tokyo, an intrepid reporter asked about the consequences if astronauts "boldly went where others probably had never been," according to The Straits Times, an English language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore.
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They should. What else is there to do?
That's BS. Of COURSE they have sex in space. Wonderful, weightless sex in positions impossible on Earth. Just imagine the possibilities. They just can't talk about it.
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