The main "sexy" secret of the future expedition to the Red Planet was revealed by Helen Sharmen - the first British astronaut
Helen Sharman, a British astronaut, performing in London at the New Scientist Live festival in London, whether by accident or deliberately revealed NASA's secret plans for the Mars expedition.
It turns out that in vain the uninitiated discuss the prospects of sex in space - they say, there will be something for the crew members to do on the way to the Red Planet. The American space agency decided long ago that there would be no sex. From sin. Because intimate relationships in relatively small groups are fraught with serious conflicts and, most importantly, pregnancy. And I would not like to complicate the already difficult expedition with one or the other.
In mixed crews, "dirty thoughts," as Helen put it, cannot be avoided. Equally, how not to shy away from their subsequent embodiment in the form of intimate contacts. Such is human nature.
Helen Sharmen spoke about the dangers of long-term joint flights of men and women. She herself did not fly for long.
In order to exclude heterosexual intercourse in a flight lasting at least a year and a half, NASA, after careful thought, decided to send a same-sex crew to Mars. After some more thought, we came to the conclusion that the gender of the crew should be female. Since women are more hardworking, executive, work better in a team, do not strive for leadership. Even same-sex intimate contacts in a female environment, if they all of a sudden happen on the way to Mars or back, will not be as "dirty" as between men. And they will not be humiliating to anyone.
No men around - no problem. You can devote all of yourself to research activities.
Helen said that she saw a secret report prepared by NASA specialists and the corresponding resolution on it. At the heart of the report, according to the woman astronaut, are the results of a special study. In the course of it, scientists studied the features of ordinary and sexual behavior of people who were in conditions of prolonged isolation. Helen did not elaborate on what specific research she had in mind. But most likely these were imitations of flights to Mars.
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Helen Patricia Sharmen is Britain's first astronaut. She made a space flight on May 18, 1991. She visited the Mir orbital station, where she was delivered by the Soyuz TM-12 spacecraft. She worked at the station together with Anatoly Artsebarsky and Sergey Krikalev.
BTW
None of the hundreds of men and several dozen women who have been in orbit - on space stations or on shuttles - have still admitted that they had an intimate relationship there. Even the spouses-astronauts Mark Lee and Jen Davis, who flew together back in 1992, did not confess.
One of two things - either there really was no sex in space, or the participants in such experiments carefully hide it. Although, according to experts - for example, there is no one Lori Meggs from AI Signal Research, who also prepared a special report for NASA, then the third option is also possible. Namely: there were attempts to have sexual intercourse in space, but unsuccessful. As the expert explains, there - in space - there is no gravity that would direct blood to the lower body. Simply put, weightless erection is difficult.
“The blood rushes not so much to the genitals as to the neck and head,” says Meggs, “from this, astronauts and cosmonauts have puffy faces and swollen veins on their necks.
On the other hand, as a NASA spokesman once said, there is no official ban on sex in space. The American space agency simply believes that astronauts themselves will guess to keep themselves within the bounds of decency.
Sex in space, it turns out, is not forbidden by anyone.
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There is where to send women
At the International Astronautical Congress (IAC) in Australia, Lockheed Martin announced plans to build a base camp in Mars orbit over the next 10 years. There, the astronauts will be preparing to land on the Red Planet. The company plans to land them on an already developed landing module.
Base at Mars.
The base camp near Mars will be a continuation and part of the program announced by the head of Roscosmos Igor Komarov. Russia, together with the United States, will build space stations in the orbit of the moon. Deep Space Gateway - this will be the name of this project.
The station, which is to be launched into orbit around the moon as early as 2022, will be an improved semblance of the ISS. It will begin preparations for a flight to Mars. Here they will test solutions that can then be used in the construction of a Martian orbital base.
Space station orbiting the moon.
VLADIMIR LAGOVSKY