Sex In Space: Shuttle Sex Possible?–Part I
Written by guest writer, Julie-Ann Amos of Hacking Reality and Exquisite Writing, first in her article — “Sex in Space: Shuttle Sex Possible?” (if you cannot wait, click on this link and watch YouTube while you read!!)
Julie-Ann Amos: “I am a professional writer, and run an international writing agency - www.ExquisiteWriting.com. I have a strong background as a UK-based HR and management consultant, along with many years of experience conducting research and writing in nearly every form possible. That makes me a professional UK copywriter/UK ghostwriter, with over 14 books in print in more than 20 countries, on topics such as business, management, and personal development. Additionally, I have written hundreds of articles for web sites and other online services. Many of these were written under my own name, and many were ghostwritten for release under a client’s name.”
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Nothing I write can quite match her article “Sex in Space”, as it covers everything in an “otherwise taboo” area of NASA, so Julie-Ann Amos is our guest writer for today and tomorrow. But with the soon to be explorations to both Mars and the Moon, time is something that needs to be dealt with by both space agencies and those involved–which involves personal affairs on all levels. Read this article with its four sections covering everything from the sex act in space, its dangers, affects on pregnancy and the fetus, and other in-between areas. Short of the Mile High Club whose individuals are required to have sex in an aircraft above one mile in the air, the space shuttles may have them beat which makes our astronauts honorary members!
Introduction
Space flights are nothing extraordinary anymore, with the Moon and Mars soon becoming the first planets to be colonized by mankind. The time when man is restricted to the confines of Earth will soon be over depending on several things–the ability to generate healthy offspring and the inability to develop a successful procreation program–with both restricting and influencing the first space exploration projects in the near future. (Personal profile in HubPages)
Space/earth research into Sex!
So… Sex in Space? NASA earlier had developed such a program referred to as “Sex in Space” by astronauts and Mission Control, which received funding as part of NASA’s Deep Impact Mission, publically referred to as a facade mission stated as one that would research the center of comets. But the actual goal of the mission was to research different levels of sexual pleasures and activity experiments while in space against weightlessness, with the first studies beginning last summer. Space, earth, wherever - sounds like a good space science project to get involved in!
Space - rocketing hormones issue
Unfortunately, because of the weightlessness issue, astronauts were found to have a much higher sense of sensuality in space than on Earth due to less gravity, which in turn affects their hormone levels. This change in hormones caused a series of fights with the male astronauts after the Discovery space shuttle undocked last summer from the International Space Station while heading home. The only two astronauts onboard who were not involved in the fight were the two women astronauts, Stephanie Wilson and Lisa Nowak. But on the lighter side, this fight saved NASA $2 million dollars as they had been in the preparation of studying the effects of wounds while in space, which thanks to the male astronauts onboard the Discovery, now was already completed.
Woman in space pulled
Meanwhile, the “Sex in Space” program was pulled by NASA after the arrest of astronaut Lisa Nowak, with NASA feeling that to cancel the program was the politically correct thing to do. Instead, they chose to earmark the program to educate astronauts on “societal taboos” once they returned to earth in order to not repeat the same behavior as Nowak did. The study had found that once returning from space, earth hormone levels did not return to normal immediately, which could develop somewhat bizarre hormonal behavior post space missions.
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August 24th, 2008 at 2:04 pm
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