# Impregnation in Space **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [August 7, 2004, 4:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impregnation-in-space/258786 "2004-08-07T16:53:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 10
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2004, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impregnation-in-space/258786/10 "2004-08-11T05:18:32Z")
> [@nonpolar](#): > > How about Russians ? [Sex in Space Forbidden, Says Russian Cosmonaut](http://www.space.com/news/cosmonauts_sex_010601.html) > [@](#): > > Musabayev also gave a negative answer when asked whether anybody has ever had sex in space. “Definitely not, although there is a lot of idle talk around this,” he said. [Sex In Space: From Russia…with Love](http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39977,00.html) > [@](#): > > NASA might be a little squeamish about sex in space but in Russia the scientific community is noted for keeping abreast of sex, romance and long-term crew isolation in space. > > The Institute of Biomedical Problems (IBMP), a leading Russian research institute in the field of space medicine and biology, has been involved for decades in the sex-related studies of living species in space. Back to America: [Sex That’s Out of This World](http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,39977,00.html) > [@](#): > > In the book Living in Space, former NASA consultant G. Harry Stine, who died in 1997 shortly after his book was published, said that the neutral buoyancy tank that’s used for astronaut training at Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, was also used, both officially and unofficially, to see whether people could shag sans gravitational pull. The upshot is that there are all sorts of ethical problems with impregnation in space, and no one has _ever_ had sex in space. 😉 --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/impregnation-in-space/258786)._