Million Mile High Club

With hopes of sending astronauts on a mission to Mars, which will take about three years, NASA is finally coming to grips with the possibility that ...gasp!... a mixed crew of astronauts might, perhaps, someday, maybe, engage in space sex. However, a veteran Russian cosmonaut urges NASA to assign a crew without women to remove the temptation. “A young guy could hold out three years without women, then when he got back to Earth all women would love him,” Musa Manarov, who has spent a total of a year and a half in space, claims. He adds it’s easier to go without women in space than on Earth. “On Earth you see advertisements, television, someone going by. You’d go out of your mind, say, two years without women.” But having a woman on a space mission would make such self-control impossible, he says. “It’s like a weapon that could misfire. But if you didn’t have the weapon at all it just won’t go off.” (Reuters) ...NASA is realistic enough to know the astronauts’ weapons will be going off whether women are there or not.