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Thursday, July 26, 2007


The NASA Astronaut Corps is obviously suffering from an identity crisis. So they do what most folks do when they have a crisis. They have a few drinks.
At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.

The independent panel also found "heavy use of alcohol" before launch that was within the standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology, which reported the finding on its Web site.

A NASA official confirmed that the health report contains claims of alcohol use by astronauts before launch, but said the information is based on anonymous interviews and is unsubstantiated. The official didn't want to be named because NASA plans a news conference Friday to discuss the panel's findings.
Wow. They really can do whatever the hell they want to. All pilots know the 12 hours "bottle to throttle" rule is only superceded by "12 feet from the plane" rule. I guess it's no different in orbit.



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