NASA officially remains silent on the issue, and nobody involved has ever talked about it in public;  but sex in space has most definitely been going on a long time. I've written about this before.

For those wishing to join the hundred-mile-high club, there are some significant obstacles. The largest of these is that the number of potential partners is small, so those pursuing this path have to go through a lot of logistics hassles to end up in the right place at the right time with a willing partner.  Once in the right place, some steps would need to be taken to get the other crew members to look the other way. There's no privacy on a shuttle.

Recall that members of one flight team were newlyweds. But even ignoring this, there have been co-ed flights going on for 30 years. I suspect the number of club members is somewhere upwards of 30 - even given the significant obstacles.  Homo sapiens have natural urges and curiosities, and there would be some amount of personal ego gratification from being able to say you did it in space; even if you couldn't exactly talk about it. Someday when all these folks start getting old the stories will start to emerge. Remember how long it took to find out about all the off-camera goings-on of the Brady Bunch and Happy Days folks(?)... and these were Hollywood stars whose entire business plan involves publicity and gossip.

Anyway, today the tip of the iceberg was finally exposed, showing some of the logistic hassles in play. The subject finally made national headlines when one astronaut pepper-sprayed another, who were both competing for the affections of yet another.

The perp is a married mother of three. She is said to have worn diapers during her 1000 mile drive to confront her rival so as not to have to stop at the restroom. It's a tragic story really, but unfortunately quite amusing;  and is likely to open up a lot of public scrutiny into a very private world.  

From CNN: 

Police found in Nowak's bag a tan trench coat, a new steel mallet, a folding knife with a 4-inch blade, 3 to 4 feet of rubber tubing, large plastic garbage bags and about $600 in cash, the report said.

Nowak acknowledged details of Shipman's allegations, according to police, and allowed officers to search her car. There, police found diapers, six latex gloves, directions from Houston to Orlando International Airport, e-mails from Shipman to Oefelein, a letter indicating how much she loved Oefelein and directions to Shipman's home address in Florida, the report said.

Nowak told police she didn't intend to harm Shipman and "that she only wanted to scare Ms. Shipman into talking with her," a police report said. Asked about the BB gun, Nowak told police it "was going to be used to entice Ms. Shipman to talk with her," the report said.

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