Report: Astronauts DRUNK at liftoff

:wow:

http://www.king5.com/topstories/stories/NW_072607NAB_astronauts_drunk_liftoff_TP.b2d9992e.html

Associated Press

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - An independent health panel studying NASA astronauts found "heavy use of alcohol" before launch, according to a published report Thursday.

Aviation Week & Space Technology, a weekly trade journal, reported the finding from the panel on its Web site. The weekly said that the committee found that on at least two occasions, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk.

The alcohol use by astronauts was within the standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule applied to NASA flight crew members, Aviation Week reported. The panel was created following the arrest in February of former space shuttle flier Lisa Nowak, who was implicated in a love triangle


WHHEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!

:rofl:

I've never heard that term before, but I like.

If I'm gonna blow some o-rings on takeoff, I would rather be plastered as the thing was melting around me.

look what happened the last time they lit up a doob

lol


CB

I'd have a few tots beforehand too.

no way would I be able to do it w/o some sort of tranq in my blood. I'd actually probably have bummed a valium. And the astronauts don't control shit on take off so who gives a fuck. Brave motherfuckers if you ask me.

big deal. Those things practically fly themselves, anyway.

if I was sitting on top of a flying bomb and someone was about to light the fuse :wow:

this isn't russia, is it?

and sent you straight home if you were too SOBER. :P

Jack Butler: Wanna beer?
Ron Richardson: It's 7 o'clock in the morning.
Jack Butler: Scotch?

_|_

Those boys party. Hard.

when he broke Mach 1 the first time, recall? He'd been out drinking the night before, went horseback riding fell off the horse and hurt his shoulder. He had to use a cut down broomstick to close lock himself in, since he couldn't use his injured arm.

They did party hard.

I'm a laugh riot, yessiree!

:rofl:

Personally, I don't blame 'em. Except I'll bet the DUI ticket would be astronomical....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

(Bill Dana, 1960's comedian)

"The most important part is the blastoff!"
"I always take a blast, before I take off, otherwise I wouldn't get in that thing..."

:rofl:

Oh I hope not...

.....LLLLAAAUUUUNNCCCCHHHHH....

"The clock is running...primary boosters a-ok...we've cleared the tower at 9:03...altimeter is green *YURK*...ah...altimeter is brownish yellow...slimy...I see corn...I'm pooping...and again...the sun is coming through the window now...oh Lord what a heavenly *YURK YURK GRAK FURG GAK GAK*...Houston, we have no visual sightlines anymore...the windows are just...not good things...and space smells like Southern Comfort and Egg McMuffin...whod'a figured...commencing roll...oh...*BLUG BLUG SPOCK SPOCK SPOCK ROOP ROOP KLOX YOX KHAAAAAN*...Specialist Farlow has become Swamp Thing...repeat...Specialist Farlow is Swamp Thing...or maybe a CHUD...Huh?...repeat last, Pilot Juffs?...oh, right...approaching international space station...ten meters...five...two...BONG...I hit the garage door, man...*YARK YARK YARK*...ugh...pepperoni...open the hatch...that's one small step for man...one giant leap for...pooping again...zzzzzzzzzzz...

What? Are they gonna accidently run into something - in outer space? The odds must be astronomical.

Of course, I resolved that issue by not becoming an astronaut.

:puke:

:wow:

Whee! Look at me! I'm doing 1500KPH in a 1000KPH zone!

:D

are fucking hysterical.

Drop some acid before lift off


CB

Screw that, I want the full experience not numbed down the slightest

Someone once asked one of the first astros what he was thinking of as the countdown was winding down to liftoff and he said something like "It occurred to me that this rocket was built by the lowest bidder".

If I was sitting atop that thing with that thought running through my head, I'd want to get ripped as well.