Sex is forbidden for astronauts in space. At a workplace 400 kilometers above the Earth, there are strict rules about this. Sexual relations on the International Space Station (ISS) could indeed complicate the relationships of a small expedition. But the deeper we move into space and think about colonizing another planet, the more the question arises whether it is even possible to have sexual relations in space, on Mars and elsewhere.
Experts haven't really figured out how having sex in space. The biologist explains the best situation Athena Andreadis, who says that sex in a zero-gravity space presents a great challenge, because in such a space there is no friction, and if there is no friction, there is no resistance. It is reproduction that will become a key factor during space travel. Also radiation and microgravity (this reduces bone density, fluids in the body are distributed differently, etc.) could be a big problem. Scientists also do not yet know how living conditions in such circumstances would affect the mother and the newborn.
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If there was no sex in space yet (experiments with animals have so far been unsuccessful), then the first wedding in space has already taken place, namely in 2003, when he was a Russian cosmonaut Jurij Malenchenko on the International Space Station, an American of Russian descent Ekaterina Dmitrieva but the fatal "yes" breathed its last on Earth.
Sex in space - is it even possible?
