[ABC] “The Shuttle Endeavour will launch a day later than scheduled, NASA officials told ABC News Friday. Specifically, weather slowed down replacement and testing of the shuttle’s pressure valve.”
A more likely explanation is that Nasa’s drunkonauts choked on their own vomit and scraped the $3m dashboard.
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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…