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more about #leroychiao komododave: I think the next theme week should go to our home grown final frontier: The Ocean! Deep sea ocean tech, submarines, deep sea mining, crazy ships....th... more » Kaiser-Machead: It was a brilliant week of articles guys, and it concluded nicely with Diaz' "Why We Need To Reach The Stars" article. Kudos. more » jakebathman: Anyone else having problems with being continually signed out on commenting? more » NarcoSleepy: You bare your soul, not bear it. Bearing your soul is likely to get it shredded to tiny bits more » Bos'un's Mate: BTW, if anybody needs inspiration, google 'Tracy Caldwell'. more » Bos'un's Mate: I don't know about the best position for space sex, but the best location is where the spinning ring of a space station mates with its stationary hub. more » LandShark: I ashamed that it would be assumed a man would brag about it-maybe for self-focused people whose egos come before all else. But if I cared for someone... more » davezatz: If true, astronauts are much nerdier than I thought. (And, outside of Lisa Marie Nowak, more faithful.) Bet the Russians beg to differ, tho... more » Heliophage: Sex is too limited by the apparent effects of gravity. Think of all the ridiculous positions you could do without such constraints! Nay, I challenge y... more » Kaiser-Machead: Dear Orbiter, I didn't think it would happen to me, but I knew right away that I'd be hard pressed to refuse this docking request... more » GitEmSteveDave_ My Brute Dojo Code CDIAFIFE: Correct me if I am wrong, but wasn't there a husband and wife who went up on a shuttle mission sometime around the early 90's? We also had Ms. Nowack... more » Mark Pettersson: "come sit on my rocket love, and feel the earth move" - LOL more » Sora57: Now we all can appreciate the gravity of the shituation. more » Purple Dave: Just don't use any space-toilets designed by anyone named Wolowitz. more » Mount_Prion: "The Trouble with Dribbles" more » Nick: i guess anything is better than the two fingers and a leaf technique someone told me once more » Thud: I asked this precise question of my 2nd grade teacher in 1972. The cool thing was that she actually took it seriously and wrote a letter to NASA with... more » Lewis: So is the most unrealistic part of sci-fi the artificial gravity generation? Is that even remotely possible? more » Ozzie's Secret Code Name: MisterWho: So, if someone has diarrhea, and misses the hose a little, then wonderful specks of brown pixie juice will be drifting aloft?! Ewwwww!!! more » Jakooboo is unfortunately in Ukiah for the week. ;(: Gross... What did you do with the (full) bags during Gemini and Apollo? Use them as pillows? more » -
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Space Week Roundup: The Right Stuff
Well, last week's space theme was exciting for readers and staff alike, not least of all because we had a real actual NASA astronaut baring his soul daily. Here are the highlights:
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Sex In Space: When's Someone Gonna Get Freaky in Zero G?
In his final installment as Gizmodo's cherished Astroblogger, real-life astronaut Leroy Chiao covers the taboo topic of sex in space. Will it happen? Has it happened? Guess you'll have to read to find out... More » -
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The Trouble With Space Toilets
Even when astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao isn't asked, he knows people are dying to know: What's the deal with relieving yourself when there's no gravity to contain the mess? How does it actually work? More » -
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The Air Up There: What Space Stations Smell Like
In Leroy Chiao's five-day stint as astronaut guest blogger, he's striving to illuminate the everyday aspects of life aboard the International Space Station, stuff that isn't in press releases. Today's topic? The air they breathe. More » -
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The Charms of Soyuz: Blasting Off In a Crazy Russian Rocket
Our astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao is one of the few spacemen to have flown in both a US Space Shuttle and Russia's five-decade-old spacecraft, the Soyuz—any guess which one he prefers? More » -
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Pre-Launch Jitters and Then... Liftoff
Contributing astronaut blogger Leroy Chiao continues his five-day mission to enlighten us about space travel, backtracking to the pre-launch period of nervous tension—and steak and eggs—then on to that unforgettable moment of explosive truth. More » -
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The Challenge of Brushing Your Teeth In Space
Contributing astronaut guest blogger Leroy Chiao continues his five-day mission to enlighten us with life in orbit, this time dealing with the troublesome business of the morning routine, particularly brushing your teeth in zero gravity. More » -
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The First Feelings of Space
Contributing astronaut Leroy Chiao kicks off his Gizmodo guest blogging with the answer to that most frequently asked question, "So what's it like?" Here are his very first impressions of life in space: More » -
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Meet Leroy Chiao, This Week's Contributing Astronaut
Leroy Chiao has flown on the Space Shuttle three times, spent six months commanding the ISS, and logged over 36 hours walking in space. This week he's blogging for Giz. We're excited. More »
