Sex In The Space

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Earth Didn't Move for Astronauts, NASA Says

Claims that space shuttle astronauts conducted 'sex experiments' in space are based on an Internet hoax

By David Emery

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is СПОРing a French science writer's claim that American astronauts conducted sex experiments while orbiting the earth in the space shuttle in 1996.

Pierre Kohler, author of The Final Mission, alleges the experiments were minutely described in a top secret NASA publication identified only as "No. 12-571-3570."

The text was supposedly discovered — where else? — on the Internet.

NASA has responded that no legitimate document corresponding to that number or subject matter exists, adding that the supposed title doesn't even correspond to the numbering system the agency uses to identify its publications.

"It▓s one of those urban myth things," NASA spokesman John Ira Petty told MSNBC News. Another NASA representative labeled the Internet text "fraudulent." Yet another stated: "We are not, have not and do not plan to conduct any sex experiments."

Kohler's book apparently focuses primarily on alleged experiments conducted by cosmonauts in the USSR space program, but asserts that the United States pursued similar research. The experiments were videotaped, the author says, then the tapes were subjected to rigorous analysis.

"One of the principal findings was that the classic so-called missionary position, which is so easy on earth when gravity pushes one downwards, is simply not possible," he stated in an interview.

Unfortunately for Kohler, who has built his case around evidence contained in the mysterious NASA document, there's no evidence that it exists .rt from references in another Internet text, purportedly a summary of the zero-G sex experiments, "NASA Publication No. 14-307-1792."

Besides the fact that the aforementioned text is clearly a put-on designed to poke fun at scientific and bureaucratic jargon, there's the teensy-weensy problem that this very document has turned up in Usenet postings dating back to 1995.

According to Kohler, the experiments weren't conducted until 1996.

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