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- NASA on Wednesday "flatly"
denied a claim in book by a French author that US astronauts went to space
on a mission that included sex experiments in zero gravity, adding the
author never worked for the US space agency.
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- "We flatly deny that there was such an experiment,"
National Aeronautics and Space Administration spokesman Brian Welch said.
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- French science author Pierre Kohler wrote that NASA sent
up a specially prepared shuttle flight in 1996 to determine which sexual
positions were the best in microgravity, citing an agency document as evidence.
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- "We flatly deny that any such (NASA) document (on
the case) ever existed and we flatly deny that Kohler was a trainee astronaut
for NASA," Welch added.
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- The spokesman described the alleged story as "salacious,"
saying it was apparently based on Internet gossip from years ago.
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- The claim is made in a newly published book, "The
Last Mission," about the Soviet-Russian space station Mir.
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