NASA views human space flight as an entirely chaste activity and doesn’t want to know about any of the rumours that someone has “done it” in orbit. Press officers at the agency couldn’t find any officials willing to talk about the subject when Laura Woodmansee told them she was researching a book to be titled Sex in Space. That didn’t stop her from going ahead with her plan of covering the serious science of animal reproduction in space as well as what Feedback will simply call “docking problems” that humans might encounter. She admits, however, that the book is “intentionally racy”…
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