Drunk Astronauts

[Aliantha]

From here, a story about astronauts driving drunk.

I have two questions.

1. Who was the designated driver?

and

2. What are they going to crash into up there anyway?


NASA's latest blunder? Astronauts driving drunk
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From Friday's Globe and Mail

July 27, 2007 at 12:51 AM EDT

Considering how image-conscious NASA is, the news couldn't have been more bizarre yesterday with the disclosure that some astronauts once blasted into orbit while blasted.

The bombshell, first revealed by the magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology, is outlined in an internal report NASA is to make public Friday.

But to some former managers at the space agency, it was no surprise.

They spoke of a looser-ruled era in past decades when such drunken transgressions could have happened and been accepted by compliant flight surgeons.