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Sex in Space Resources Articles Davis, Joshua, ed. “Prophets and Loss.” WIRED Magazine 10.10, Oct 2002: 13. http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/10.10/start.html?pg=13 Delio, Michelle. “Sex That's Out of This World.” WIRED News 4 Nov 2000: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39977,00.html Gallagher, Barbara. “NO SPACE SEX?” Scientific American Jan 2000. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=00013BBD-A029-1CD6-B4A8809EC588EEDF Note: BARBARA GALLAGHER, a freelance writer focusing on the space sciences, is a research associate at the Institute for Advanced Psychology in Tiburon, Calif. Interfax. “Sex in Space Forbidden, Says Russian Cosmonaut.” Space.com 01 June 2001: http://www.space.com/news/cosmonauts_sex_010601.html Pesavento, Peter. “The Psychological and Social Effects of Isolation on Earth and in Space.” QUEST - The History of Spaceflight Quarterly Vol. 8 No. 2 (2000) http://www.spacebusiness.com/ RetroFuture.com. Lefcowitz, Eric. “Has anybody had Sex in Space?” RetroFuture 2001: http://www.retrofuture.com/sex.html Biology "The effect of microgravity on testicular androgen secretion" Strollo F, Riondino G, Harris B, Strollo G, Casarosa E, Mangrossa N, Ferretti C, Luisi M. Aviat Space Environ Med 1998; 69:133-6 http://www.asma.org/Publication/abstract/v69n2/69-133.htm Books that Mention Space Sex Collins, Michael. Liftoff. Grove Press, June 1988. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0802110118/qid=1050959103/sr=1-7/ref=sr_1_7/103-2646944-9739040?v=glance&s=books#product-details Harrison, Albert A. Spacefaring: The Human Dimension. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. Note: “Men and Women,” pp. 194-196. Chapter online at: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9028/9028.ch11.html Kohler, Pierre. La dernière mission (“The Final Mission”). Paris: Calmann-Lévy, 2000. http://www.editions-calmann-levy.com/Calmann_Levy/_FindArticleServlet?IdArticle=113890&TXT_LANGUE=francais Note: BBC article about the “The Final Mission”: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/655151.stm Stine, G. Harry. Living in Space. New York: M. Evans and Company, Inc., 1997. Note: “Sex in Space,” pp. 181-183. Humor Langley, Liz. “Suiting Up For Sex in Space.” Orlando Weekly 24 Oct 2002 http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=14376 The Mile High Club http://www.milehighclub.com/ Note: It’s for real! “Sex in Space?” alt.sex newsgroup 28 Nov 1989: http://www.wards.net/~bill/humor/parody/space_sex.shtml Equipment "Harness for Sex in Space" http://www.globalideasbank.org/1993/1993-27.HTML Elaine Lerner, a New England Sunday School teacher, has patented a system of straps and loops to allow one partner to exercise control of the movements of the hips of the other partner during love-making. She is trying to interest NASA in her invention, so that astronauts will one day be able to effect the delicate docking maneuver of zero gravity intercourse. Ray Noonan, head of the Sex Institute in New York, argues that in-flight intercourse would help relieve astronauts of the enormous amount of stress they undergo during missions. And science writer G. Harry Stine relates a rumor of one couple's attempts at intercourse in NASA's weightlessness tests who required the help of a third party: 'They found out that it was nice to have somebody else there to push at the right time and in the right place.' Notes: NASA have rebuffed Lerner's approaches to date. She's decided to market the device on her own. 'I'd especially like to have that husband-and-wife astronaut call me.' Elaine Lerner, 670 Depot Street, Box 1247, Easton, MA 02334-1247 (tel 001 800 982 BELT). Journal Articles Freitas Jr., Robert A. “Sex in Space” Sexology Today 48(April 1983):58-64. The best non-fiction article I have seen on the topic. Includes an excellent bibliography. http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/SexxxInSpace.htm Battles, Lara. “Coping With Effects of Enforced Intimacy on Long Duration Space Flight (MAR 98-065),” PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOUNDING CONVENTION OF THE MARS SOCIETY, CHAPTER 14: HUMAN FACTORS 709 pp. 711-716. http://www.univelt.com/marssoc/marscon1.htm NASA Research By International Space Station science officer Don Pettit. Space Station Science Picture of the Day Series “High Tea” April 7, 2003 http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/07apr_hightea.htm Explanation: It's a competition: surface tension vs. gravity. Surface tension holds droplets of water together. Gravity pulls them apart. On Earth, gravity usually wins. Only small droplets have enough surface tension per unit mass to remain intact. Onboard the International Space Station (ISS), however, surface tension rules. Weightless water can form big floating drops, large enough to quench your thirst and tough enough to handle using chopsticks. “Space Bubbles” April 1, 2003 http://science.nasa.gov/ppod/y2003/01apr_zeolitebubble.htm Explanation: "One time I sent a marble-sized drop of water from my shower off on its own trajectory," says ISS Science Officer Don Pettit. "It was filled with tiny bubbles. Like a little planet, the drop was spinning on its axis. I observed that all the bubbles quickly moved to the center and formed a line along the axis of rotation." The spinning droplet was like a miniature centrifuge: Higher-density water was flung away from the spin axis; lower-density air bubbles sank toward it. Scientists here on Earth are thinking about spinning entire spaceships to provide artificial gravity for astronauts. Space station shower droplets are a fun model for that grander project. After his shower, Don wondered what would happen if he spun water droplets containing not lightweight air bubbles, but instead particles like tea leaves and sugar grains, which are denser than water. Can you guess? Read Don's Space Chronicle #5 to find out what happened. http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles5.html (NASA) Editor's note: There is no shower on the ISS that resembles a bathroom shower on Earth. Astronauts use spray nozzles to squirt water on wash cloths--that's how they clean themselves. The spray nozzle is what Don Pettit meant by "my shower." Discussion on Surface Tension http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/surten.html Living and Thinking in Weightlessness http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles10.html Surface Tension and Gravitational Force (Spherical ball versus flat pancake) http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles15.html Symphony of the Spheres http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/station/crew/exp6/spacechronicles17.html NASA--Living in Space http://www.spaceflight.nasa.gov/living/index.html Organizations Institute of Biomedical Problems (Russia) http://www.tech-db.ru/istc/db/inst.nsf/wu/1604 Notes: Has been doing extensive research on all aspects of people living in space. National Space Biomedical Research Institute (USA) http://www.nsbri.org/ Notes: NSBRI research seeks solutions to health concerns facing astronauts on long missions. Patients on Earth suffering from similar conditions will benefit from these advances. Notes: Water as a simulator—NASA JSC’s neutral buoyancy tank. Rumors of unofficial experiments after hours. “The Three Dolphin Technique” Look into biology studies done by NASA. How to animals and insects do it? Surface tension versus gravity. Sweat beads up on the skin; you have to brush the beads off; then you have sweat bubbles floating around. May not be good to inhale. Restraints may be needed to hold people in place. Or else 3rd Law of Motion will keep frustrating things. In space wrinkles disappear, breasts become larger, and legs become smaller. This has to do with the fact that with no gravity, blood flows up to the face and upper body. Newton’s Three Laws of Motion http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/newton3laws.html