London: A Russian cosmonaut has revealed that his bosses have equipped space men with a cache of porn movies to help them cope with lonely nights in orbit.
However before they could watch them, the videos will have to be checked to make sure they don't contain computer viruses.
Russian cosmonaut Dr Valery Polyakov said: "Psychological Support Service sent us some nice, 'colourful' movies which help to recover our will, to act like a normal adult male.
"There is nothing to be ashamed of.
"Men think about those things - one can't turn away from them."
Polyakov holds a special place in history of cosmic carnality because space fans believe he "joined the 200-mile-high club" with a fellow cosmonaut - an allegation he has always denied, the mirror.co.uk reported.
He has also rejected rumours that the Russians filmed an out of this world porn flick on the Mir space station and said the only sexual "experiments" which had taken place did not include men and women.
When asked if human sex-periments had even been staged in space, he replied: "Only in animals.
"And only by the Americans.
"Any information that such experiments were made in the Russian program is not true."
After arriving at the International Space Station, Tim Peake took to Twitter to thank rocket pilot Yuri Malenchenko for an "incredible ride".
The Russian was forced to manually dock the Soyuz space craft on Tuesday due to a problem with the autopilot.
