News Item:
NASA to probe alchohol use
There is a policy within the Space Agency that prohibits drinking alchohol within a 12 hour time frame before a flight. Officials are now investigating reports that on a couple of occassions some astronauts may have bent that rule by bending their elbows a bit more than they should have.
The 12 hour rule itself might be a bit liberal if NASA wants its astronauts to be stone cold sober at liftoff. Maybe 24 hours would be a better idea. Have you ever been completely tanked at 10 o’clock at night? Did you still have a hangover 10 o’clock the next morning? Granted, space is not the place to be falling-down drunk, but these men and women are after all still human. Considering the circumstance that they’ve been placed in, we can see the need to take a little nip now and then.
News Source: LA Times
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