A professor from Florida who serves as a consultant to NASA suggests allowing sexual intercourse in spacecraft, NASA in response: We do not engage in this * Universe Today website experts: there are many ethical and practical problems that prevent this
Apparently, among those interested in suborbital flights that will be offered by companies of the type of Virgin Galactic and its competitors may be Honeymoon couples, and it is possible that one of these couples will also try to set a Guinness record and be the first to fulfill the mitzvah Pro and Rebo in space, but a NASA consultant claims that for long missions to Mars or a long stay on the moon, the agency should assign the option of privacy and allow sex.
Dr. Jason King, a consultant to NASA and a professor at Embry-Riddle University of Aeronautics in Florida, said in an interview published today in the Sunday Telegraph that a round-trip mission to Mars may take three years, and it is difficult to prohibit men and women from abstaining for such a long period. According to him, the space agencies should imitate what the first polar explorers did who took partners with them.
Ian O'Neill, of the Universe Today website, adds that there is also an ethical question regarding the possibility of pregnancy in space. Tests in zero gravity on rat fetuses showed a decrease in skeletal and brain development. The effect on human fetuses will remain a mystery. There is always a fear of pregnancy because pills that are taken orally (such as birth control pills) do not work in space the same way they do on Earth, and thus NASA may find itself with babies it did not intend to treat and does not have the means to do so on the way to Mars.
The fact is that NASA is actually cutting back on biological research in favor of future lunar missions, and therefore it seems that issues related to human sexuality will still await an answer. As mentioned, the NASA spokesperson answered briefly: "We do not investigate sexuality in space."
