Meeting the press during a recent visit to Tokyo, NASA Astronaut Alan Poindexter -- Commander of recent Discovery ISS resupply mission STS-131 -- was asked if there had been sex in space. His reply was succinct and left no room for ambiguity (though this photo does look pretty chummy):
We are a group of professionals. We treat each other with respect and we have a great working relationship. Personal relationships are not ... an issue. We don't have them and we won't.
Hang on a second. I'm not sure that the concepts of "sex in space" and "professional" are mutually exclusive. I'm sure that, given what we've learned about human physiology because of spaceflight, that there are any number of cardiologists, internists, endocrinologists, OB/GYNs, and a whole host of other health-care professionals and researchers who would love to have physiological data taken of a couple before, during, and after a ...
