History Channel
Season. 3 Episode. 4
http://www.history.com/shows/the-universe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Universe_%28TV_series%29
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW3qvfWjINA
EXCERPTS:
"The number one enemy of sex in space
is Isaac Newton's 3rd law of motion
for every action, there's an equal and opposite reactions.
So we're going to have to learn, tediously
a new law of human behavior when it comes to sex in space.
- MICHIO KAKU
Ready to test that law and boldly go
where no man and woman have gone before is
VANNA BONTA.
G-FORCE ONE
a modified Boeing 737
that produces the effect of weightlessness.
Vanna (and husband Allen) was invited on the aricraft's maiden voyage in 2004.
A pair of 2suit prototypes have been manufactured
and they're about to be throughly tested
38,000 feet above Nevada.
To crate the effects of zero gravity
G-Force One takes a parabolic vertical flight path.
As the pilot arcs the aircraft over the peak of the parabola
the occupants experince about 30 seconds of weighlessness.
MICRO GRAVITY
When you take a human and put them in a micro-g setting
the bones are losing calcium
the heart is getting lazy, it's losing mass
the skeletal muscle is losing mass
You lose red cells mass,
you lose plasma volume.
ANIMALS IN SPACE
The first animal
to successfully mate in space
was the medaka fish,
which flew on the space shuttle in 1994.
A study with rats aboard
a 1995 space shuttle mission.
showed an abnormal behavior in newborns.
For the fist week after birth,
the young rat pups
weren't able to turn themselves from their backs to their bellies
which is a very characteristic response in rats.
We think that rearing them in micro-gravity
cause that sensory system to be under stimulated by gravity.
In fact, there's one evidence that men tend to have erections
easier in space because of the fluid shift.
The conclusion?
Males need to worry less about performance issues
in space than they do on Earth.
We do have a small sample size of four shuttle crew members
who basically said that their sexual desire
actually decreased on orbit,
and this correlated
with decreased testosterone levels as well.
If gravity affects all aspects of certebrate development
then there are profound implications
when you consider successful procreation.
Earth-Suit
for space born man, when visiting Earth.
What better opportunity to figure out how to do it right
than NASA's planned three-year mission to Mars.
But will sex be invited along for the ride?
NASA currently has plans to return humans to the Moon,
by the year 2020.
That's just a warmup for the main event
a three-year voyage to Mars and back.
Despite NASA's denials
and their history of avoiding the subject
some say sex has already occured on a u.S. space flight.
in 1992, Davis and Lee (married couple) blasted off
for a 7 day mission aboard the space shuttle Endeavor.
NASA has no official policy banning sex in space.
But they do have a policy against sending married couples into space.
Davis and Lee met during mission training
fell in love, and wed just before liftoff.
Mark Davis and Jane Lee have refused to confirm
or deny the rumors.
Russian have been more involved in the issue of zero gravit sex.
and sex in space than the Americans have.
The Russians are a little bit more open-minded.
In space;
The faces get a little bit more flush,
woman's breast get larger.
The legs are thinner because there's less fluid down there.
Women don't need bras because there's nothing to pull them down.
It seems inevitable
that where humans go
sex will surely follow
even into the cold,
vast reaches of the universe.
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