Can humans actually get erections in space?

Apparently… yes.

In this Quickie episode, Eric and Alicia react to an astronaut’s firsthand account of waking up aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery with what he described as an “intense” erection in microgravity.

From NASA’s historical discomfort around discussing sex in orbit to the physics of thrusting in zero gravity, this conversation goes from hilarious to surprisingly scientific very quickly.

We get into:

• The astronaut memoir that confirmed erections in space
• Why NASA historically avoided conversations about sex
• The physics problem of thrusting in microgravity
• CPR harnesses and why the research may already exist
• Why sex in space keeps becoming a real engineering discussion

Because if humans are going to live in orbi ...