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[Previous entry: "New book on religion has intersting ideas."] [Main Index] [Next entry: "Parents name kid after google."] 10/24/2005 Entry: "NASA due for shakeup." NASA due for shakeup. On the heels of NASA's proposals to replace the shuttle with a capsule spacecraft as the shuttle, even if fixed, could never make it to the moon and beyond. The larger question is how much space militarization can be expected from this. Probably quite a bit. Also: No sex in space, laptops full of porn not of the question. "Breakups can lead to violence and all kinds of things," agrees Carol Rinkleib Ellison, a psychologist specialising in sexuality and intimacy based in Oakland, California, US, who was not part of the NAS panel. "People are very primitive in their emotions around partnering and sex." Sexual harassment may also endanger a mission. In an 8-month space station simulation on Earth in 2000, a Russian man twice tried to kiss a Canadian woman researcher just after two other Russians had gotten into a bloody brawl. As a result, locks were installed between the Russian and international crews' compartments.