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Panel Finds Astronauts Flew While Intoxicated
AviationWeek.com ^
| July 26, 2007
Posted on 07/26/2007 11:54:59 AM PDT by HAL9000
Excerpt -
A panel reviewing astronaut health issues has 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.Full story
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TOPICS: Astronomy; Travel
KEYWORDS: astronauts; nasa
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To: mutley
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posted on
07/26/2007 12:20:24 PM PDT
by
golfisnr1
(Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
To: 1rudeboy
On a somewhat related topic: if the synthahol in the Star Trek series didn't cause hangovers, why wasn't everyone walking-around blasted all the time? Well. You see. I can. Act. Much better. When I'm not. Stinking drunk.
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posted on
07/26/2007 12:23:38 PM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Progressives like to keep doing the things that didn't work in the past.)
To: HAL9000
I’d have to be really really loaded to get up in one of those.
To: HAL9000
Wh..wh..where do I sign..*burp*..up?
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posted on
07/26/2007 1:16:22 PM PDT
by
FReepaholic
(Boomchakalakalaka Boomchakalakalaka)
To: HAL9000
What a mess.
The astronaut program entered the world of bizarro when the police told us they found bondage pornography (including pictures of other women in bondage) in Nowak's car.
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posted on
07/26/2007 7:06:01 PM PDT
by
SkyPilot
To: HAL9000
To: LibWhacker
"I like to drink on occasion myself, but haven’t been “drunk” in 40 years, since I was a teenager."Sounds like you're just not trying.
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posted on
07/27/2007 12:54:45 AM PDT
by
Tainan
(Talk is cheap. Silence is golden. All I got is brass...lotsa brass.)
To: tricky_k_1972; KevinDavis; AdmSmith; Berosus; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; ...
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posted on
07/29/2007 10:40:23 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
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To: 1rudeboy
I think synthahol also didn't get them blasted. Plus, it's like, in the future.
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07/29/2007 10:43:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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