Drunk Astronauts flying Space Missions for NASA

The US space agency NASA is facing a full-blown crisis as lawmakers prepare to probe how it allowed astronauts to fly space missions while drunk.

The US House of Representatives Science and Technology committee called an oversight hearing for September, after NASA confirmed a report that astronauts had shown up to work drunk.

House Space and Aeronautics subcommittee chairman Mark Udall warned that the report was a “wake-up” call.

“We need to understand what happened and why, whether anyone is going to be held accountable, and what the agency is going to do to fix these apparently deep-seated problems,” he said.

The report released by NASA found “heavy use of alcohol” inside the standard 12-hour “bottle to throttle” abstinence period for flight crew.While the report did not specify on which missions the drinking occurred, Air Force physician Richard Bachmann, who authored the report, told reporters one incident involved preparations for a shuttle mission that was eventually delayed.The astronauts then wanted to fly on a T-38 supersonic jet used by NASA, he said, without giving more detail.The second case involved a Russian Soyuz mission bound for the International Space Station (ISS), colonel Bachmann said.

NASA had earlier confirmed the report on alcohol use and flying while impaired, saying that “both flight surgeons and astronauts identified some episodes of heavy use of alcohol by astronauts in the immediate pre-flight period which has led to flight safety concerns.”

“However the individuals were still permitted to fly,” it said in a statement.

The report raised major concerns about safety, according to Democratic committee chairman Bart Gordon.

“Drinking and driving is never a good idea - least of all when the vehicle involved is a multi-billion dollar Space Shuttle or a high performance jet aircraft,” he said.

There was more bad news for the space agency on Thursday when NASA officials said workers found a computer due to be transported by shuttle Endeavour in an August mission to the ISS had been apparently sabotaged, its wires cut.

“One of our subcontractors noticed that a network box for the shuttle had appeared to be tampered with,” NASA spokeswoman Katherine Trinidad said.

“It is intentional damage to hardware.”

“What we are trying to do now is repair that unit and try and fly it when possible.”

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lol wtf
they just let drunk people launch space shuttles and everything, huh…..

i mean i could understand if an astronaut / cosmonaut / whatevernaut was in space for an extended period of time, and had the occasional wine with dinner or perhaps got shitfaced at the end of a long day…… but damn!
dont get plastered right before take off!
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