CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk on at least two occasions, an aviation weekly reported Thursday.
An independent panel reportedly found that flight surgeons allowed intoxicated astronauts to fly on space shuttle.
It cited a special panel studying astronaut health, which found "heavy use of alcohol" before launch that was within the standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology.
Friday, July 27, 2007
great. i just get over my fear of meteors and now i have to worry about about a drunk astronaut plowing into me with a space shuttle.
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"Bottle to throttle?" Holy crap, this is big enough an issue to have a rule - with a nickname? I don't blame you, I'm scared too.
This totally freaked me out when I heard it yesterday. Why would you want to be drunk while flying into space? Maybe to help blot out the memory of the Challenger? Although I guess I ought to be more worried about drunk airplane pilots, risk-wise.
Compared to drunk automobile drivers, though, not so much.
Some of the astronauts are basically passengers for the ride, the mission specialists, etc.
It would be like being drunk in the back seat of a car, though one that's powered by the world's largest firework.
Come to think of it, I would want to be loaded to block out that thought.
I think I rather deal with the off chance of the space shuttle plowing into me, than the real chance of my high/drunk DC metro driver plowing into the train ahead! ;-)
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