Jim Oberg wrote:

JimO: This is the same guy, five years ago, who blamed the Canadian woman
Judith Lapierre for all the tensions in the space isolation simulator when she was such a spoilsport about being french kissed by amorous russian crewmates


Can't have meaningful discussions on such a taboo subject here. Lets
just hope that program managers will be able to get over taboos and
politically correct barriers and discuss real issues of crew
compatibility.

Was it a mistake to accept someone who would refuse advances from
others, or was it a mistake to expect that the crew would be able to
keep to themselves for so long ? If you're going to allow couples only,
this has serious implications for training since you can't just pick
individuals from a pool of astronauts, you need to pick individuals and
then train their spouses. And you need to have good appreciation of
whether a couple will last through the mission without wanting a divorce
in space.

NASA and RSA have to get over the taboos and start to really test
various crew "configs" and they may also consider sending couples to the
station to see what sort of interactions happen.