[FPSPACE] The Absurdity File: NASA Commander claims no sex on board ISS

[Peter Pesavento]

>From France 24..com

 

http://www.france24.com/en/20100628-no-sex-please-were-astronauts-nasa-comma
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Poindexter:  "We don't have them [sexual relations in space] and we won't."

No sex please, we're astronauts: NASA commander

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Created 28/06/2010 - 10:42

There is no room for romance on board the cosy confines of the International
Space Station, a NASA space shuttle commander said Monday when asked what
would happen if astronauts had sex in space.

"We are a group of professionals," said Space Shuttle Discovery commander
Alan Poindexter during a visit to Tokyo, after a reporter asked about the
consequences if astronauts boldly went where probably no others have been.

"We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship.
Personal relationships are not ... an issue," said a serious-faced
Poindexter. "We don't have them and we won't."

Poindexter and his six crew members, including the first Japanese mother in
space Naoko Yamazaki, were in Tokyo to talk about their two-week resupply
mission to the International Space Station.

The April voyage broke new ground by putting four women in orbit for the
first time, with three female crew joining one woman already on the station.

Sex in space may appear out of bounds, but astronauts have been known to
succumb to earthly passions.

In 2007 former NASA astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak allegedly wore adult diapers
when driving hundreds of miles across the United States without bathroom
breaks to confront a suspected rival in a romance with a fellow astronaut.

 

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