Then scientists developed a special suit for cosmonauts, called Chibis. The suit bears some resemblance to a metallic barrel with a stool in it. The lower part of the astronaut is pressure-sealed and the air is pumped out of the barrel to make blood rush to legs. On the basis of Chibis specialists later developed a device to treat ejaculation dysfunction.”
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As a rule, people show great interest in the relations between astronauts in mixed crews of long-term space flights. The would-be International Space Station enables the mutual work of people of different ethnities, sex, age, cultures and traditions.
Valery Polyakov, the world’s flight endurance record-breaker, told Interfax about his long-term flights and relations with his female colleagues. He spent 438 days on the orbit during one flight. He was flown to the Mir Space Station in 1994-1995 together with Alexander Viktorenko as the commander and Elena Kondakova as an onboard engineer.
At the traditional press-conference after the flight Elena Kondakova answered a question about sex in space: “The environment, including weightlessness is of no importance for sex, but I think the most important condition is a person you love.”
“After all these tortures in space you do not love us,” her male colleagues proceeded. Elena kissed them and said “Of course, I love you but like brothers.” However, Polyakov considers that astronauts’ motivation and their attitudes to perform difficult tasks dominate certain relations between men and women during the flight. Polyakov doubted that NASA had already conducted a “sexual experiment” in space. “Even during the Cold War era, US and Soviet doctors were on friendly terms,” he said and added that he could not remember the USA unveiling any data concerning such experiments.
He finds such experiments immoral. “Americans are not less moralistic than we are,” said the astronaut. Nevertheless, he does not deny that sexual experiments in space will be thought over.
Meanwhile, French writer Pierre Kohler in his book The Final Mission wrote that US astronauts tested several sex positions in 1996 for conditions that would be comfortable under conditions of zero gravity. The author referred to the NASA document about the secret experiment.
Helen Sharman of Britain confessed in 1991 that she had had a fantastic experience with Russian cosmonauts on board the Russian Mir. A video record on which 28-year-old maiden Helen is wearing a pink night-shirt gave reporters a reason to make the most daring suggestions.
“During long-term flights cosmonauts may see female crew members in erotic dreams,” Polyakov admitted. “But they can prevent platitudes, pay women compliments, speak about her attractiveness and support her psychologically,” he said.
Translated by Julia Bulygina
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