Sex in Space (Video)

Since 1982, men and women began to fly in space together. However, before the advent of the world's first woman in space has been suggested that researchers interested in how the coupling to gravity, and experiments are being conducted to determine whether a man can reproduce. This myth that we will now....
The first person who not only thought about that, but also openly wrote, was a Frenchman. In 1953 the then little-known writer Pierre Boulle (Pierre Boulle) - later filmed by the novels that have become classics of cinema ' Bridge on the River Kwai ' and ' Planet of the Apes ' - wrote a frivolous science fiction story L'Amour et la pesanteur - in Russian translation .

On the space station, Joe was listed simply as a janitor, so to speak laborer. Even before space flight became a maid, Betty his bride. On board the ' satellite ' ( a space station called in the novel ) was a priest, were married couple. However, despite repeated attempts to make love on their wedding night - for the bride and groom because of the weightlessness did not work.
... I flew over it and even it did not affect. Flew as a glider over her hot body and could neither catch hold. She was lying in one meter away from me, and I could not touch her. I ran headlong into the wall above the bed and flew to the front of the septum '- lamented hero of journalist.

Joe and Betty were forced to postpone having sex until the return to Earth. A final conclusion, and Joe 's story was negative: ' Their ' Satellite ', this hrenovina without gravity, maybe rasprekrasny thing for scientific observations, excellent to look at the stars, perfect for catching cosmic rays - I agree. But as for love, then they made ​​a gross and inexcusable mistake. This is the last place in the world, what I would advise newlyweds, except that they have perverted tastes '.

Ten years later, flew in space Valentina Tereshkova, first woman, and a meeting of the orbit of both sexes moved from the realm of science fiction in the realm of reality. Tereshkova rumors about itself does not dissolve, because she was on board the ' Orient 6' alone, and orbital stations at that time did not exist.

However, the authors of the myths ' about the space of love ' operate spouses name Nicholas ( according to other sources - Anatolia) and Ludmila current, allegedly sent to one of the first ' Unions '. The expedition, rumors claimed, failed because of the death of a spouse in 1965 in a plane crash. Later died and Lyudmila....

At the end of December 1973 the crew of the ship ' Soyuz- 13' in the Peter and Valentin Lebedev Klimuk, according to the recollections of staff of the Center Mission Control, with an unearthly sense of humor took to the next job ' party and government '. Dedicated their ejaculate, after returning from orbit, was implanted to their wives, but they are not pregnant.

In 1976, NASA announced the recruitment of new crew members for their space shuttle, which has already been done on gender differences. Of the more than 8,000 applications filed in 1544 American women, six of them - along with 29 men - enlisted in astronauts.

In the Soviet Union but has not forgotten how to overtake its rivals in the space race. The first mixed space crew launched from Baikonur, August 19, 1982 on a spaceship ' Soyuz T -5': Commander, Leonid Popov, Alexander Serebrov Flight Engineer and cosmonaut -researcher Svetlana Savitskaya. On the space station ...
A week later, the trio returned safely to Earth, and is 27 September 1982 German magazine Der Spiegel, without any equivocation wrote: ... The source of this, to put it mildly, dishonest doctor approval was NASA named Dick Richards (Dick Richards), who supposedly knew all the ins and outs of the Soviet expedition. That he was saying: ' Russian want to explore how developing baby, conceived in weightlessness '.
They say smoke without fire. Here and here, too. Soviet experiments on reproduction in rats during space flight were. However, the rat is not only my mother gave birth to viable offspring, but she had died shortly. Research conducted by a team of space medicine in Kansas City, showed that the process of reproduction of living beings in conditions of weightlessness changes. During several missions conducted experiments with the sperm and the eggs of sea urchins. In weightlessness, the mobility of sperm cells increased, and after placing the container in a centrifuge that simulates the increased force of gravity - again decreased.
In fact, the commander of the orbital station ' Salyut ' birch, this expedition brought a lot of anxiety, because he believed that the woman on the ship - unfortunately. In a letter to his wife, Birch complained that the presence of Savitskaya can complicate life on board the space station. The first woman astronaut to walk in space in July 1984, Savitskaya birth to a healthy baby in November, 1986. But this fact did not have anything to do with her ​​' space odyssey '.

So, sex in the USSR was not even in space. However, as we know, except for Soviet women cosmonauts, in the history of exploration of the universe were U.S. astronauts. Before the start of the new millennium, some 40 women astronauts circled the Earth, and some of them were in orbit for two weeks.

In June 1983, Sally Ride (Sally Ride) has completed a flight on the space shuttle Challenger and became the first American in space. Her colleagues, as in the case Savitskaya, were four men: Robert Crippen (Robert Crippen), Frederick Hauck (Frederick Hauck), John Fabian (John Fabian) and Norman Tagard (Norman Thagard). As is the case with the Soviet female astronaut, there were rumors about a certain kind of relationship that have been officially denied by both the astronauts and NASA leadership.

According to the most common legend, the first sexual intercourse in space, September 3, 1984 while flying Discovery carried Judith Resnik (Judith Resnik) and Richard Mullane (Richard Mullane), which had never been any lovers or husband and wife. Spouses were the astronauts Jan Davis (Jan Davis) and Mark Lee (Mark Lee), who in 1992 flew on the space shuttle Endeavour. However, they were married shortly before the start, so that NASA did not have time to replace. As punishment, that they rarely spoke, they were assigned work, divided between a 12 -hour shift. However, the accident with the ' Challenger ' in January 1986 and the death of his crew, which included Judith Resnik, a long time seemed to close the discussion on ' Sex and the cosmos '.

The attention of the Western media has focused on the Russian space station Mir. In May 1991, there for a week held the first Englishwoman astronaut Helen Sharman (Helen Sharman). 28- year-old Helen, a chemist by training, acted on the board in the UK with restraint, concentrating solely on the work, but at the banquet table at the station 'Mir ' was spotted in a pink chiffon dress, dressed in a tracksuit. Some observers took the young woman's dress in a negligee and then unanimously noted, saying that such an outburst would have been unimaginable at the NASA.

October 4, 1994 on the ' Soyuz TM- 20', along with Alexander and Elena Kondakova Viktorenko in space launched the German Ulf Merbold (Ulf Merbold), who had already twice been in orbit as part of the crews of American shuttles. Specializing in coverage of space subjects German journalist Horst Hoffman (Horst Hoffmann) wrote that ' since the joint space mission, Ulf Merbold feels in his heart a great location for an elegant Russian '. What is meant Herr Hoffman, and remains a mystery. And no one to ask about this - he died in 2005.

At a press conference held immediately after their return from orbit, Kondakova said to journalists on the issue of sex in space: ... When her teammates jokingly retorted that ...

The media reported about the seals ' pants ' ' Lapwing ', which creates a negative pressure on the lower part of the body, activating blood circulation. Russian cosmonauts wear mandatory ' lapwings ' at the final stage of flight. For three weeks they ' stand ' in sealed fixture four times for 20 minutes, and in the final two days before the descent to Earth Sessions ' artificial gravity ' increases up to 55 minutes. Experts in aerospace medicine in three words express their side-effect: ' Better than Viagra '.

The author of these lines heard from the staff of Star City next juicy story about the first space tourist Dennis Tito (Dennis Tito). After the return of 60 -year-old American businessman of extraordinary voyage, his young friend, Don Abraham (Dawn Abraham) was recognized Russian experts that the best night of love in her life was not directly alluding to improve the abilities of men by her boyfriend. although it may be to blame is not weightless, and long-term abstinence Tito.