According to a NASA space engineer, early astronauts needed to provide an accurate measurement of a certain male body part so that body waste disposal equipment would work properly. :eek:
lol xD thank you for that.
Who wanted to account for Shrinkage?
I wonder when that information will get released to the public :-). It might explain why Gordo Cooper was such a hot dog. Flying so low over the Florida Everglades so your propeller is hitting grass just to get under a flock of seagulls to prove they’ll poop on your plane is not the work of a man comfortable with his manhood. Or sanity.
Was the measurement affected by all the tang they got?
I’m certain that their wives (especially the exes) could have told anybody who was interested how they “measured up.”
Joey_P
March 26, 2014, 4:37pm
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Not the picture I was expecting to see when I clicked on the link…“No, really guys, mine’s this big”.
beagledave:
Different kind of Tang .
They tried marketing a new dried-plum flavor of tang. But people considered the name “Prune-Tang” to be misleading.
But boys will be boys , even if they’re astronauts:
What ended up happening was astronauts would pick ‘large’, regardless if it wasn’t their size (remember, there are lady astronauts aboard.) The problem with this is when an astronaut needs to take a leak and his penis is fitted with a large condom that he can’t fill out, his piss is going to end up all over the suit—and his secret won’t exactly be a secret anymore.
How did NASA fix this problem?
They renamed the sizes to large, gigantic, and humongous.
NASA diapers forced men to make big revelation
It was a mission-critical element: the size of NASA astronauts’ manhood. Seriously. The Houston Chronicle resurrects the fascinating historical tidbit by way of the Science Channel’s Moon Machines documentary series, in which engineer Donald Rethke explained the very precise nature of early space diapers.
The Maximum Absorbency Garment system, donned by Gemini and Apollo astronauts, featured one very specific element: a sleeve likened to a condom with a hole at the tip that enabled the men to urinate into a pouch with a one-way valve in their suits.
Three sleeve sizes were available, small, medium, and large. And astronauts couldn’t fib, explains Rethke. If they decided to order the next size up, the sheath wouldn’t fit snugly, and liquid could potentially leak out, causing damage.
Here’s the kicker for me.
To make the process a little less embarrassing, the sizes were later renamed: large, gigantic, and humongous.
I always insisted I had a large penis. Now NASA will back me up!
To make the process a little less embarrassing, the sizes were later renamed: large, gigantic, and humongous.
I’d think NASA could come up with something better than that, like maybe “So are you more of a Sirius B, Alpha Centauri, or a Rigel?”
Look, you don’t understand. Space is cold. There was shrinkage.
Miller
March 30, 2014, 12:57am
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In space, nobody can hear your excuses.
EmilyG
March 30, 2014, 3:21pm
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having the right stuff was important.
Merged duplicate threads.
cmyk
March 30, 2014, 9:21pm
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Now I’m just thinking of penises in zero-G.
