Daily Archives: July 27th, 2007

Astronauts Flying Under the Influence

Drunken Astronauts
Astronauts Biff and Bill minutes before their flight aboard space shuttle Endeavour.

Aviation Week & Space Technology reports that “on at least two occasions astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk.” The NASA can consider itself lucky that none has barfed in orbit so far. Try to picture the cleaning bill for a space shuttle…

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