Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions
October 25, 2005
Sex and romantic entanglements among astronauts could derail missions to Mars and should therefore be studied by NASA, warns a top-level panel of US researchers.
NASA plans to return astronauts to the Moon by 2018 and later on to Mars. But a round-trip mission to the Red Planet would probably last at least 30 months and carry six to eight people. That would be a hotbed for intense crew relationships, says a report by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS). [continue]
The obvious answer to this issue is just to use all heterosexual males for the journey.
But in today’s politically correct climate one would not dare to even suggest that. This is not a problem on the ISS? Those people are up there months at a time. Just because the trip to mars will take them farther from earth this becomes an issue now?
The military is dealing with the same problem. A problem that if actually reported on would fly in the face of political correctness so it is still hush hush, for now.
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