The article discusses the public's fascination with astronauts' personal lives, particularly regarding bathroom habits and potential sexual relationships in space. Mentioning a conversation with a NASA colleague, it highlights how NASA maintains safety protocols while monitoring astronauts' health and comfort. The piece references the historical interest in 'space sex,' which gained traction in the early 1990s, following the first married astronauts' missions. Notably, recent public speculation about astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, who spent nearly 10 months together on the ISS, underscores the ongoing intrigue surrounding intimacy in microgravity environments.
"For as long as I worked in science communication at NASA, people had always asked the same two questions about human space flight. First, they wanted to know about bathroom stuff, which was easy to answer... But after the poopy talk, people wanted to know about the sex."
"People have been interested in space sex since at least 1992, when the first and only married astronaut couple joined the 50th Space Shuttle mission and cohabited in space together."
"In fact, they piqued so much interest that when I responded to a question about space travel on TikTok the other day, it went massively viral. More than 9,000 people commented..."
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