Didn't the Russians send up a married couple back-when? Don't think they kept that one secret at all.
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First Aries I - Orion CEV Suborbital Test Launch
- Thread starter FlyingOnFumes
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No. Two pairs of Cosmonauts did marry in the 60's, neither of one pair ever made it into space but the other pair included the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova. They never sent a couple up together though from what I can tell.
There's a persistent urban legend about Shuttle Sex. Snopes says it never happened, and it seems to be based on a Soviet semi-official study on feasibility of sexy-sexy on orbit.
As to whether the married Shuttle crew members did their thing, remember that on a typical mission, the lower deck (where everybody sleeps) has six or seven adults crammed into a space the size of a walk-in closet. So either 'it' never happened or astronauts are totally into letting their friends watch while they figure out some awkward free-fall physics. And the cost of a Shuttle mission works out to tens of thousands of dollars per hour, so the idea of letting a couple do their thing for a few hours for dubious scientific purposes also seems unlikely.
As to whether the married Shuttle crew members did their thing, remember that on a typical mission, the lower deck (where everybody sleeps) has six or seven adults crammed into a space the size of a walk-in closet. So either 'it' never happened or astronauts are totally into letting their friends watch while they figure out some awkward free-fall physics. And the cost of a Shuttle mission works out to tens of thousands of dollars per hour, so the idea of letting a couple do their thing for a few hours for dubious scientific purposes also seems unlikely.
Well, like I said earlier...is exploration for exploration's sake such a bad thing?
It'd be more like 20 minutes. They're married, after all.
Bada-bing! Am I right or what, folks? The 10:30 show us completely different, tip your waitresses, you've been beautiful.