- PARIS (Reuters) - Sex in
space works but forget the most conventional method if you are seeking
the ultimate in love without gravity, according to a French author who
also believes trials have been conducted aboard a U.S. space shuttle.
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- "It appears the classical approach, the so-called
missionary position, is an easy position only on Earth, when gravity keeps
you pinned down, and that it would be ruled out in space," says Pierre
Kohler in a new book, The Final Mission.
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- Kohler, an astronomer who has converted himself into
cosmic affairs commentator, says documents posted on the Internet by a
U.S. researcher underpin his belief that astronauts have tested the limits
of stellar sex with space agency support.
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- His publisher, Calmann-Levy, told Reuters it planned
to issue the book on Thursday.
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- NASA and other space agencies deny such "taboo"
experiments, Kohler concedes, but he argues that his Internet discovery
backs up the idea that experts have worked with astronauts to assess the
possibilities of weightless intercourse.
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- The document, entitled NASA No. 12 571-3570, describes
how scientists drew up a shortlist of 10 sexual positions later tested
by an astronaut couple in the zero-gravity conditions of orbit, albeit
in a grounded shuttle, he says.
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- Six of the 10 trials needed props such as elastic belts
or an inflatable tube similar to a sleeping bag to keep the couple tightly
together, he says. The other four positions left it to sheer muscle power.
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- Kohler also says the couple apparently agreed to filming
of the 10, one-hour sessions in the lower deck of the shuttle, and that
they added their own personal footnotes to help scientists.
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- NASA was said to have got an edited version only because
the video footage was primarily compiled for a university, he says.
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- Kohler concedes that astronauts are also mute on the
subject of human sex in orbit, even if they have conducted reproduction
research on South African frogs and Japanese fish.
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- Astronauty But Nice
By Ian Sparks
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- Astronauts had sex on the American space shuttle - with
the full blessing of NASA bosses.
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- The zero-gravity nookie sessions were all in the cause
of finding which positions work best in a weightless environment.
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- But the men and women volunteers created their own atmosphere
as they went through TEN different lovemaking tests, says astronomer Pierre
Kohler.
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- Six positions used an inflatable tunnel with WALL straps.
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- They were designed to hold the lovers together - though
the other four positions allowed the couple to FLOAT freely about the capsule.
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- Kohler, French author of many books on space, claims
he has seen secret files on the 1996 sexperi-
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- ments. He says NASA document number 12-571-3570 reveals
that mixed teams of astronauts were sent on four missions to boldly go
where no-one had gone before.
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- Well, at least not Yanks - though Russian Svetlana Savitskaia
was rumoured to have had sex with one or more of the four men she spent
a month with on the now-defunct Salyut-7 space station in 1982.
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- And in 1991, Britain's first female astronaut Helen Sharman,
then 28, said she'd had "fantastic experiences" on the Mir station
with four cosmonauts.
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- This is not to suggest any impropriety - though one Russian
said the crew had "great fun" with Helen, who was videoed floating
around in a pink nightie!
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- Now Kohler, who makes his claims in his new book The
Final Mission, says: "Sex in space could have been tried out many
times.
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- "But the NASA experiments were possibly the first
to ind the most effective ways of doing it if couples had to spend a long
time in space."
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