And I thought I was stupid for drinking and riding my Ninja... that's just a new LEVEL of stupid.
Yup, there's plenty of redundancy built into space flights so a single drunk pilot isn't necessarily going to crash the space ship, BUT you have to remember that we are paying their astronomical (hee hee) salaries with our damn TAXES, and those asses are drunk on the job. VERY uncool. I've seen DISHWASHERS get fired for less, lol.
Lastly, can you even IMAGINE how awful it would be to be hung over in zero gravity, or during the liftoff? All those Gs and a headache, too. Pass the yak sak, please?
stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on . US astronauts flew while dangerously drunk Report says NASA let astronauts fly drunk CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) - Despite safety warnings from NASA doctors, astronauts were allowed to fly after drinking heavily, an independent panel said in a report released Friday. The report said it happened twice, but gave no names and did not say when the drinking occurred, how many astronauts were involved, or whether they were flying on the space shuttle, the Russian Soyuz spaceship, or aboard NASA's training jets. NASA officials let them Rating: 5