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- From: roelle@uars_mag.jhuapl.edu (Curtis Roelle)
- Subject: Re: Breasts in zero-g
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- Organization: Johns Hopkins University
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- Date: 18 Nov 92 19:59:31 GMT
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- thep_t@garbo.sunet.se (MAGNUS OLSSON) writes:
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- >I know this may sound like a weird kind of question, but we were discussing
- >a comment in an SciFi book about the effect of zero-gravity on a female
- >characters breasts, and started wondering what really happens to womens
- >breasts in space. Do women astronauts need to wear bras, for example?
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- This is not my area but I will try and firmly grasp the subject on
- your behalf. This is a personal hypothesis:
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- A coworker once commented that he found it pleasing viewing the hair
- of the late Judy Resnik, shown in the shuttle on the NASA select T.V.
- In zero-g her hair appeared full of body, and he was attracted to it.
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- I suspect that the same applies with breasts. Without gravity they
- tend to seek their own level such that the plane that includes the
- radial axis of each breast, as well as the darker compexioned exterior
- frontal discs, rotates upward, away from the waistline, so as to align
- themselves perpendicularly to the spine. Without a gravitational tug,
- their shape changes from conical to globular. The use of a brazier is
- still required, although the flight version differs from the
- terrestrial standard in that instead of lifting the breasts upward it
- pulls them downward, keeping them out of the face.
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- The astronaut performs special isometric exercises to maintain muscle
- tone of the pectoral area. However, when examined upon their return
- to a 1g environment, the breasts may be found to sag slightly more
- than they did when in pre-flight condition. This problem should
- correct itself in time.
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