Looks like those astronauts weren't drunk after all...

[kay1864]

No evidence of drunk astronauts: NASA

NASA has reviewed 10 years of space flights and found no evidence to back up allegations that astronauts boarded a space shuttle and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft drunk, the U.S. space agency's boss said on Wednesday.

The agency was investigating every flight involving shuttles, the Soyuz and the T-38 trainer jets flown by astronauts, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters.

"Right now, we've gone back 10 years and we can't even find where it would be a possibility there was crew under the influence on either a Soyuz or a shuttle," he said.

<snip>

The panel said it was told of at least two occasions in which NASA astronauts were cleared to fly despite indications they were drunk, one involving a space shuttle flight that ended up being postponed for other reasons and the other a Russian Soyuz spacecraft.

Speaking at a news conference at Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the space shuttle Endeavour blasted into orbit on Wednesday, Griffin said he would be "extraordinarily surprised" if there was anything to the accusations.

He noted that shuttle crews are under intense supervision on launch day and are not alone from the moment they wake up.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070809/sc_nm/space_shuttle_nasa_dc

I had my doubts about this when I first heard it. The above makes more sense to me.

[Parche]

1. Not So Fast

:hi: :rofl:

[ghostsofgiants]

6. Not to mention this...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8FLTQ8iAGc

[NV Whino]

7. Holy shit!

I kept whacking my computer screen. You gotta get rid of that sig bug! :rofl:

[kay1864]

2. Self-kick for the evening crowd

That might have missed the news.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

3. Who in the hell would want dry heaves in space?

[kay1864]

4. Good point

Not to mention that weightlessness/inner-ear effects must quadruple a hangover.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

8. Exactly...

I don't doubt that these pilots could tie a few on; but I can't believe they'd be so stupid as to get drunk on the day of a flight.

[Archae]

5. I have evidence of a astronaut drinking...

http://www.indyhpmedia.com/misc/Jose%20Jimenez%20%28Bill%20Dana%29%20-%20The%20Astronaut.mp3

:rofl: