Underwear for the moon trip

[Marks Y-fronts]

I wonder did they design some special underwear for the guys for the trip to the moon this week back in 1969 ? I guess they couldn't change their jocks at all once they were inside those space suits. Maybe its in some NASA museum somewhere. If it was me they were sending to the moon, I would have wanted loose Y-fronts and a tank top.

[The Bondsman]

Not exactly sure just what the ...er, ...toileting arrangements were for Apollo moon missions, but I do know the earlier trips, ...thankfully shorter, relied on low-residue diets and medically induced constipation to avoid having to "go" at all, and the later astronauts wore the adult versions of disposable nappies! UGH!
The same sort of thing that's now used for incontinent aged care.
(And you thought nothing useful came out of the space programme!)
It's a case of learn to change nappies, ...you'll be changing your own one day!:eek::D
I've always thought it must be rather inconvenient when they have to suit up so long before lift-off, ....I can just hear some bloke saying "But I really need to piss!"
There is a zero-gravity toilet on the space station which relies on suction, ......easy enough to visualise when the astronauts are male and they only wish to urinate, but I am not at all sure of just exactly how the mechanics function when it's the bowels that are involved.
Come to think of it, I wonder if astronauts have ever been guilty of using that urinary suction tube excessively to provide a little extra stimulation!
They can be in space for a long time and it must get VERY lonely up there!

[The Bondsman]

Just found this article on the very subject we were discussing.
Here's this new design of silver-coated undies, ....didn't the British army or someone test this same idea before? I'm sure we mentioned here on the board.
Silver-coated or not, I think a MONTH:eek: is a LONG time to wear the same pair of undies.
Smell or no smell, the "stains" (ahem!) have still got to be there. I don't think they have toilet paper up there!:eek:
Those briefs have got to be getting more than a little "crusty"!:eek:
Imagine having to "examine" those undies now, ...what the hell are they looking for? Who tests for "smell"?:eek:
Undies don't exactly take up a lot of room, ....could it be so heavy to pack a few extra pairs?

[sfrunner]

Hmm, I never thought much about it before, but what do guys do about 'sexual pressure' when they're up there for long periods? Are they allowed to masturbate? How? And here's an interesting thought - imagine jacking off in space (outside the space vehicle somehow) and having a cumshot blob flying off at zero G at a constant speed (I would estimate a few feet per second). It would dessicate very fast in vacuum of course, but a little residue of sperm cells would go forever.

[The Bondsman]

what do guys do about 'sexual pressure' when they're up there for long periods? Are they allowed to masturbate?
And remember the cameras inside the space station are ON all the time, so whatever you do, ....Houston are awatching!
Perhaps they supply each bloke with one of those grotesquely named "Pocket-Pussies" to alleviate any excessive pressure in the jocks?

[hangright]

And remember the cameras inside the space station are ON all the time, so whatever you do, ....Houston are awatching!
Perhaps they supply each bloke with one of those grotesquely named "Pocket-Pussies" to alleviate any excessive pressure in the jocks?

cameras on all the time,then you dont want to be caught in white y fronts.
A nice pair of hugging boxerbriefs in white would be ok

[The Bondsman]

cameras on all the time,then you dont want to be caught in white y fronts.
Surely nowhere near as embarrassing as being caught in your shiny pink frilly lace panties?:eek::eek::eek:

[deusex]

Another article/commentary about the underwear in space experiment - but this one mentions what astronauts normally do with their undies in space...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10301463-71.html

[The Bondsman]

Another article/commentary about the underwear in space experiment - but this one mentions what astronauts normally do with their undies in space...
Oh I was SO gald to read the part where it said the undies were incinerated. I had this horror that they just ditched them with their rubbish out an airlock into space, as they used to do with most of their unwanted refuse. Imagine Earth circled by a huge not-so-shiny ring of very dirty old undies?
I know there's a ring around Uranus (ahem!;)), ...but it consists of dust.
I'm not sure future space missions would enjoy having to fight their way through Earth's ring of very crusty old knickers!:eek:

[hangright]

wearing the same undies for a month is about as bad as wearing barbie pink panties.:eek::eek::eek:

[deusex]

wearing the same undies for a month

You've just made a bunch of guys very very horny.

(not me though)

[hangright]

You've just made a bunch of guys very very horny.

(not me though)

ha-ha-ha,as long as they dont try to make me wear them,the barbie ones.
i want a man to look like a man and that has to be butch wear.

[The Bondsman]

I know the astronaut in question said the "no one complained so it must have been alright", ....but honestly, ...how many of us would actually TELL someone they stank because their undies were really whiffy, and could probably do with a wash?
His fellow spacemen trapped in that confined station may just have been way too polite to pass comment. And we were not told how often the blokes wearing more conventional undies with NO deodorizing capabilities changed. They could have smelled worse!:eek:
I suspect most of us in such a situation at work would just make a mental note NOT to get too close again, or ever share a lift with anyone we thought smelled that bad!
Could be a bit difficult when you are FORCED to share very close quarters.
Apart from drips and other little odoriferous "oops":eek:, the body gives off dead skin and oil and grease which accumulates on your undies. Not so much in one day but after a month? Considerable I'd say!

Would any of you here say something to another person who smelled as though he hadn't changed his undies for a month? :eek: :confused:
Or just shut up and put up with it?:shocked

[pnhmrk]

Oh I was SO gald to read the part where it said the undies were incinerated.

On a space trip, where there's very little oxygen available, would they really use it to burn underwear: :confused:

[hangright]

i would tell someone about their lack off hygeine,have done so in the past,and even though angry at the time,have privatly thanked me later.
Some guys dont realise they have odour,but it does need to be pointed out.
I had to tell a female workmate once they could use deodorant,she actually thanked me in front of everyone.
She never new it was so bad.

[The Bondsman]

She never new it was so bad.
I also find that amazing hangright. Do they in fact have NO sense of small at all?
Look, ....we can all become a little ......er, less than fresh at times, but I can smell it immediately. How can people walk about without realising the pong they smell is THEMSELVES???:confused:

[hangright]

I also find that amazing hangright. Do they in fact have NO sense of small at all?
Look, ....we can all become a little ......er, less than fresh at times, but I can smell it immediately. How can people walk about without realising the pong they smell is THEMSELVES???:confused:

I think they are so used to their smell,they dont seem to notice everyone else gaggin,and talking about them,in an unpolite way.
So,in the best interests for everyone,it is best to tell them even if you get the evil eye for doing so.
Years ago,when i worked in a hotel,a guy there stank and i mean really stank,so no one else would tell him,so bad me did it.
he said he did not know what i was talking about,i had to tell him straight out he stank..wash with soap and use deodorant.
He got the message,but said i didnt have to be so blunt.But sometimes you do.