TOURISTS are likely to be having the first sex in space within the next decade, experts believe.
They will be able to start enjoying out-of-this-world bonks as more private rockets take off for the stars.
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But fellas fancying an in-flight fumble may flop as lack of gravity will limit blood supply to todgers.
US-based space expert Lori Meggs said in an article for Nasa: “There’s no gravity to pull blood into the lower body.
“Instead, blood goes to the chest and head.”
Even so, experts reckon space tourism pioneers such as Virgin Galactic should expect travellers to try to establish the equivalent of the airline rompers’ Mile High Club.
It has already been dubbed the Kármán Line Club, named after the boundary 62 miles above sea level that marks the beginning of space.
Prof David Cullen said: “Considering the various motivations of space tourists and upcoming spacecraft developments . . . we concluded that in-space sex will probably happen within the next ten years.”
Prof Cullen of Cranfield University, Beds, said research was needed into the effects of conception in space as, even if tourists used contraception, it might not work.
He said there was also a potential for ectopic pregnancies or developmental abnormalities in embryos.
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Cosmonaut Valery Polyakov spent a staggering 14 months in space in the 90s.
The Russian adventurer reportedly grew close with fellow astronaut Elena Kondakova during their time together on the Mir space station.
But the pair and Kremlin officials furiously denied the claims that they had stripped off and bonked for all mankind in the cramped cabin.
