Space.com is saying that weddings in space could be right around the corner, and experts figure the inevitable cosmic consummation will be just around the next corner.

The Japanese firm First Advantage and the U.S.-based private spaceflight firm Rocketplane Global, Inc., announced last week they will host weddings in space for about $2.3 million a piece.

For all we know, sex in space has already taken place. But NASA officials aren’t talking about that much.

Beyond space tourism as a platform for steamy shenanigans, space missions are the perfect petri dishes for close encounters, and this year NASA certainly has a busy flight schedule, with five missions planned. And more countries than ever are now venturing into space, with Japanese astronaut  Koichi Wakata slated to become Japan’s first long-duration space flyer this year and China gearing up for its first spacewalk scheduled for October.

Things will get even more interesting with future long-duration missions envisioned for the moon, Mars and beyond.

“To say that astronauts are some superior beings who cannot have interests in any kind of sexual feelings for three years … I just don’t buy it,” said Jason Kring of Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Florida. Kring also pointed out the possibly negative consequences of pregnancies in a microgravity environment.

“Are we going to sterilize our crew members before sending them to Mars?” said Kring, who studies the psychological effects of long-duration space missions.

Meanwhile, nobody claims to know whether “it” has happened already in space.

“We don’t study sexuality in space, and we don’t have any studies ongoing with that,” said NASA spokesman Bill Jeffs of the Johnson Space Center in Houston. “If that’s your specific topic, there’s nothing to discuss,” he added, referring to “sex in space.”

In any case, science journalist Laura Woodmansee, who penned “Sex in Space” (CG Publishing Inc., 2006), predicts “honeymoons in space and out of this world sex will be a reality within a decade.”

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