SPACE.com -- For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable

SPACE.com -- For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable: "For Better or Worse, Sex in Space Is Inevitable
By Jeanna Bryner
Senior Writer
posted: 07 July 2008
08:56 am ET

Weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.

The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million (240 million yen) apiece.

For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren't talking about that much.

Beyond space tourism as a platform for steamy shenanigans, space missions are the perfect petri dishes for close encounters, and this year NASA certainly has a busy flight schedule, with five missions planned. And more countries than ever are now venturing into space, with Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata slated to become Japan's first long-duration space flyer this year and China gearing up for its first spacewalk scheduled for October."

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