NASA Starfuries?

Heya, dunno if this belongs here or in the Salon, so here goes something:

On the IMDB page for Babylon 5, the trivia section notes that NASA asked Joe Straczynski for permission to use the design for the StarFury fighters used by the humans in the show as a basis for a sort of flying forklift utility vehicle. Does anybody know if there is any truth to this?