Out-of-this-world sex could jeopardise missions to the moon and Mars, according to a top-level panel of scientists. It recommends that NASA should get to grips with the problem by studying sex and romantic entanglements.
“With the prospect of a very long-term mission, it’s hard to ignore the question of sexuality,” says Lawrence Palinkas, a medical anthropologist at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and an author of the report published by the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS).
During an eight-month space-station simulation on Earth in 2000, a Russian man twice tried to kiss a female Canadian…
