Drunk Astronauts in space?

NASA stood for National Aeronautics and Space Administration

then they said it was Need Another Seven Astronauts...

now it might be Need Another Shot of Alcohol...


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Need Another Shot of Alcohol? Not Funny.
May mean Headline News gets involved just to make a point. Or to make a headline.
Was anything brought up about the Russians and their vodka? I don't think so.

NEWS CRAP!! Anything to make headlines! That's our news media. Just CRAP to make news.
They sicken me.
Any new news on the Hezbollah terrorising Lebanon lately?
No? There should be.
Let the news media pick on the Space Shuttle.
That's all the general news media is worth.
CRAP NEWS!
Not worth paying attention to as far as I can read and are concerned about.

-Kevin

...days, who became the first astro-nuts, got up every morning with a bit of a headache from the night before. It wouldn't surprise me if the cosmonauts to this day, toast to their success with shots of vodka before they clamp on the space suit helmets.

I think part of the brew ha ha (pun intended) over astronauts drinking before a mission might be Nasa trying to get past employing a few very human astronauts who were revealed to be subject to common human embarrassing behaviors such as womanizing or being a slightly crazed woman scorned willing to drive cross country to confront some tart trying to steal away her man.

Drinking to the point of impairment (or "getting a buzz" as the happy people call it) would be a problem but are we talking a beer with dinner or a kegger at the local frat house? Was it a pilot who was Bussing the field or a mission specialist who is just along for the ride until it's time to deploy experiments?

Will we take they wives though? Depends on how cute the space shuttle stewardess are I guess. Do the still ask "coffee, tea, or me?" and will Dean Martin be our pilot today?

I love the stories of the "old school" pilots who worked hard and played hard. the stories are very amusing and give you pause for how bold and committed Americans can be.

One thing that I heard as a "guess the real practical joke" on NPR's "Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me" show was if Buzz Aldrin pressed his "lower cheeks" against the glass window of the LM when Armstrong stepped onto the surface - the first "mooning" on the Moon! It wasn't true, but that would have been THE GREATEST MOONING EVER - EVER!

--Shalin

-Shalin, I wish Buzz had done that. One giant show for the world and giant moon for mankind!! :

Not sure of his correct spelling?

?I wish I had met that man. What tales he could tell us all about about his experiences.
At the USAF Academy, there is that X-1 on display.
Grim, this vehicle is very small and has a very small cockpit. The rocket plane was all engine and fuel.

If I were Buzz, at that time, I would have got buzzed the night before that historic flight. Believe me!
Scary days for test pilots still today.

Today's reports from the Space Agency rebuke the news story about personnel being drunk. News media will do anything to sell news. Good or bad. Anything contoversial it seems.

Dean Martin had a good act in that movie. I liked Liam Nelson also in 'Airplane", and the blow-up doll! Crazy movies!

-Kevin

never flew the X-1. Maybe you are thinking of "Chuck" Yeager?

I used to live in Glen Ridge, NJ where Buzz was born and used to see him every almost year in the Montclair Fourth of July Parade.

If the story about drunk astronauts is true (I doubt it; maybe they just had a wicked hangover) so what? It's not like they are going to fly the thing into the ground. The liftoff is mostly automated anyway.

Nah, just kidding.

Cindi

Cindi, You are too funny! :

EdH, You're right as usual.
Wonder why you are so smart.
Thanks,

Kevin