# Women in space and gravity - Huh?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [October 6, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786 "2003-10-06T01:45:12Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![DirtyKash](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@DirtyKash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirtyKash)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/1 "2003-10-06T01:45:12Z")

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First off, I’d like to preface this question with the following disclaimer:

**I am a total idiot.**

That being said…

If a woman were in space, would there be the need for her to use a bra? No, right? Because with no gravity, her boobs wouldn’t be able to sag? Or am I totally out of whack on this?

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**Author:** ![Q.E.D](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/51bf81/32.png) [@Q.E.D](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.E.D)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 1:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/2 "2003-10-06T01:57:58Z")

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They wouldn’t sag, no, but she’d still probably want to wear one for comfort, to keep them from knocking around as she did her work.

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**Author:** ![leighton1978](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@leighton1978](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leighton1978)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/3 "2003-10-06T02:16:56Z")

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Probably no more than a male astonauts penis moves other ways than downwards. I`m sure they wear tight underwear to stop it flapping around just like a female would wear a bra to stop unwanted bouncing, which sudden movement would cause, gravity or no gravity. nice thought though! the bouncing i mean not the other.

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**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/4 "2003-10-06T02:34:05Z")

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“women ought not to be allowed in zero-gravity. It did things to their breasts that were extremely distracting to redblooded male astronauts. He was sure that more than on space accident had been caused by the passage of an unholstered femal fficer.”

– semiquoted from memory fro Arthur C. Clarke’s **Rendezvous with Rama**.

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**Author:** ![Duderdude2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/cdc98d/32.png) [@Duderdude2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duderdude2)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/5 "2003-10-06T04:15:16Z")

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Damn you CalMeacham! I was just going to post that very quote!! Great book, by the way.

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**Author:** ![squeegee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/squeegee/32/14537_2.png) [@squeegee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/squeegee)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2003, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-in-space-and-gravity-huh/205786/6 "2003-10-06T04:40:12Z")

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[Science magazine says breasts would rise in space.](http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_212427.html)

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> “Breasts would float up and rest horizontally at right angles to the chest…Breasts would try to become more spherical because there would be nothing pulling them down.”
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> “If you wanted to hold them in shape, you would need to wear a bra. If you’ve got large breasts and they were floating around you’d want to keep them under control.”

Please, ladies: keep your breasts under control. Safety first!