NASA 'sent drunks into space'

[Tender Branson]

NASA will today unveil a shocking report claiming two astronauts blasted into space while drunk, and managers turned a blind eye.

Doctors and crewmates claim that the astronauts, who are not thought to be named in the report, were allowed to board the space shuttle despite warnings that they posed a danger to themselves and others.

The magazine Aviation Week claimed today that the report - drawn up by an internal NASA panel and set for publication today - reveals “heavy use” of alcohol by astronauts on at least two separate occasions just before missions, in breach of a NASA ban on drinking within the 12-hour countdown to launch.

It does not mention which astronauts, or which missions, were involved, but suggests that managers were made aware and chose not to act.

The news will heap further scorn on the US space agency, which faced embarrassment in February after Lisa Nowak, 44, an astronaut, was arrested for assaulting a love rival whom she regarded as a threat to her romance with Bill Oefelein, a fellow astronaut and space shuttle pilot.

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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22143448-30417,00.html

[Tender Branson]

What about a new movie ?

"The Astronaut's Remy Martin", a GWB (=experienced drinker) production ...

[bgwah]

Sounds like fun!

[12th Doctor]

This is what we pay $100 billions of dollars a year for, folks.

[bgwah]

This is what we pay $100 billions of dollars a year for, folks.

I'll take a couple drunken astronauts over some braindead cokehead/drunk President and his ridiculous wars any day.

[Tetro Kornbluth]

At least NASA (I almost wrote NASO ) can now be certain about the effects of gravity on alcoholism..

[AkSaber]

This is what we pay $100 billions of dollars a year for, folks.

Yeah. The pride of the world's greatest space program.

What's next? We shoot a drunk golfer up there.

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Further proof that making "Space Ready Vodka" was going a bit to far.

[Tender Branson]

Further proof that making "Space Ready Vodka" was going a bit to far.

Dialogue between NASA Ground Control and a Shuttle pilot:

Control Officer: We have bad weather in Cape Canaveral, you have to the land the bird in Vandenberg, California, understood ?

Pilot (bozed and stoned): Isn´t tat Calfuanio *hicks* an Cep Carnival all the same ? *hicks*

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

You couldnt get me on a space shuttle sober

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

You couldnt get me on a space shuttle sober