Study finds drunk astronauts allowed to fly: report

[babylonsister]

:shrug:


Study finds drunk astronauts allowed to fly: report

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HOUSTON (Reuters) - A panel has found that astronauts were allowed to fly on at least two occasions despite warnings they were so drunk they posed a flight risk, Aviation Week reported on Thursday on its Web site.

The publication said the panel set up by NASA to study astronaut health issues reported "heavy use of alcohol" within 12 hours of launch.

It said flight surgeons and other astronauts warned that the drunken astronauts posed a flight risk when they flew on the two known occasions.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070726/us_nm/usa_space_drunk_dc_2

[bdamomma]

1. ..........................

:shrug: twilight zone is right.

[shain from kane]

2. Drunk on their ass, not?

[dorkulon]

3. What. The. Hell?

Come on, wtf is this? I'm speechless.

:wtf: :wtf: :wtf:

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Meh.

It's not like the astronauts really fly the shuttle.

[shain from kane]

6. It's like trying to land a flying brick.

[Warpy]

5. If somebody was going to put me on top of what is essentially

a BOMB controlled by parts made by hundreds of the lowest bidders, you'd bet I'd be ripped out of my gourd on something, preferably a Xanax and Dilaudid cocktail.

[applegrove]

7. I'd be drunk if I was going to have to leave my home planet. What else

to do but pop the champaign in the hours before.

[billyoc]

8. What's there to crash into?

:rofl:

[gratuitous]

9. My thought exactly

But still a disturbing bit of news about folks who are supposed to have "The Right Stuff."

[rkc3]

10. And who knew the "right stuff" came in fifths?

[helderheid]

11. Drunk...in...SPAAAAACCCCE!