A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling property on the moon. The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Company managed to swindle unsuspecting customers by selling large swathes of pristine lunar property before being shut down, according to Chinese media reports on Monday.

A Chinese company has had its license suspended after it tried to make money by selling property on the moon. The Beijing Lunar Village Aeronautics Science and Technology Company managed to swindle unsuspecting customers by selling large swathes of pristine lunar property before being shut down, according to Chinese media reports on Monday.

United States space and biological experts have warned that sex in space will bring real Earthly problems not pleasure, for men and women heading to the moon and Mars. The resulting pregnancies could put long-range missions in chaos. A panel of scientists reported to NASA that interplanetary passion could cause biological and logistical chaos to its latest plans to send humans on long missions. Locked in tight corners and compartments in spaceships for years, surrounded by the starry everlasting night, astronauts' thoughts are bound to turn to romance, states the report, on risk strategy. Close encounters of the human kind could have profound consequences, it adds. Without space agency prophylactic supplies for the necessary precautions, zero-gravity transgressions could lead to zero-gravity pregnancies. "Pregnancy in space is a real issue," said one report author, Professor Lawrence Palinkas, of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. "We have to think now about how to deal with sex in space. Astronauts are human. We have no authenticated stories of sex on missions so far, though there have been near things, I suspect. "On a six-month space-station simulation mission, Canadian astronaut Judith Lapierre became the unwanted recipient of the attentions of a love-struck Russian cosmonaut after a New Year's Eve party was celebrated with vodka shots. Lapierre was pulled out of range of the observation cameras and given a deep kiss. On this occasion, she resisted. "He was aggressing my personal space," she complained later. However, future approaches might be more warmly accommodated, the report implies. However, keeping such acts private is likely to wane on even the most resourceful astronautic couple. Spacemen and spacewomen have their biological readings measured constantly. A passionate moment of any kind is likely to spike readings back home at mission control.

In a bid to cash in on renewed interest in space travel, a U. S. company opens operations in China to sell land on the moon for 289 yuan or 37 dollars an acre. Lunar Embassy has began operations in Beijing Wednesday. Li Jie, agent for the company in China, says it will issue customers a "certificate" that ensures property ownership, including rights to use the land and minerals up to three kilometers, (roughly two miles), underground.

Oakland Raiders receiver Randy Moss admits to using marijuana, but does not believe he is hooked on the drug. Marijuana is on the NFL's list of banned substances. In an interview on the HBO television program Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel, which will air Tuesday night. Moss says, "I have used, you know, marijuana since I've been in the league. But as far as abusing it and, you know, letting it take control over me, I don't do that, no. "