Comments on: NASA Ponders Death, Sex On Mars Mission

As Space Agency Plans To Land On Mars In 30 Years, It Considers Questions About Crew Health

[rf35]

Death in space is easy...store or jettison the body. Critical illness or injury will have to be handled on a case-by-case basis. Who is sick? The mission commander or one of the specialists there to run certain experiments, etc when you get to Mars? It may be necessary to expend more resources to save the pilot than you would to save another crew member.

As for the other issue, maybe only married couples in the crew? If it is too hard to find emough married astronauts to fill the crew, then maybe only single folks with equal numbers of men and women. Compatability tests before the mission? Or all same gender crews? Has anyone addressed the problem with liquids in a 0-g environment?

[noomgod]

Zero gavity intercourse, that pretty *** cool.

[draugwolf]

You better do something about the nutjobs in space diapers.. flying into a Tang rage ... and will they have guns??

[jairod]

Intimacy in a space flight of that duration is definitely an issue of health and wellbeing. An issue that has proponents and detractors on both sides of the coin. It will mos t certainly occur and the consequences need to be addressed. Health minds and healthy bodies need healthy outlets for healthy humans. The "urge to merge" and the "need to breed" is a prime mover of the human condition. Come on. The big brains at NASA know this. Face the reality.

[brosen9]

NASA should look to military war guidelines as a start for dealing with the death of an astronaut and how it may affect the mission. Also, NASA should definitely address the idea of *** in space with the idea that it can and will happen on a mission to Mars.

[dennisall77]

I have been watching space news since I was 12 (about 50 years) when we couldn't get a rocket off the ground (Vanguard, etc.). The landing on Mars will happen, it is just a matter of when will the public really support the effort. The final moon landing was dropped due to lack of public support.

I believe the astronauts are a very dedicated, disciplined group (except for the nut who drove to FL in a diaper). They will gladly sacrifice their life for a mission and not want to jeopardize one by having the crew attempting to save their life. The timing of jettisoning a dead astronaut is the only thing to be determined.

***? Again, discipline. Yes, WE would get very *****, but we are not astronauts on a mission. I can get very ***** at a ball game watching the cheerleaders, but I do not do anything about it... at that time. I really believe men can maintain composure for the etire mission, if necessaary (after all, this is not a B sci-fi movie where sexual tension is mandatory). Medication may be available to assist. Women? too many jokes there, so will avoid.

I would like to know if there has ever been an *** in space yet. Some have been up there for quite a while, but they are either busy or sleeping. Not much play time, as I understand their schedules. LOL

[nolalou]

rushman71 ,

So what's your point? Are you offering yourself for stud servce to female astronauts on future missions? Just be sure you don't end up with someone like that crazed astronaut that drove 1/2 way across the country in adult diapers!

[rushman71]

The subject of *** is being treated as taboo in space. It truly needs to be discussed. Think about it, you, leaving your spouse behind, all these thoughts of pleasure going through your head, with the one you love millions of miles away. I'd say that you would become pretty *** desparate, don't ya think. And the time away is not in days or weeks, but in years. HELLO!!!!!!

[pudd54]

Anyone that looks ahead knows we are killing this place, so we will have to go somewhere else soon. Hope they don't put it off too long and I hope we will have learned something before we go.

[amazedd]

Don't argue, you'll just make it worse.