The NYTimes reports that on at least two occasions astronauts have "flown while drunk". I put that in quotes because under what circumstances these flights took place (shuttle launch? training flight in the air? training on one of those sweet astronaut arcade games?) so the total coolness of the incidents is largely up in the air:
"[T]he panel investigators reported "‘heavy use of alcohol’ by astronauts” within 12 hours of flying."
12 hours? Could they have just had a big night on the eve of a trip? If this is about some astronaut staying at the bar until midnight with his buddies before taking off at noon the next day, the JP is going to be sorely disappointed. I want to hear about Alan Sheppard taking pulls of Jack in the cockpit of a space shuttle in cadence with the countdown from 10.
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Bottle-to-throttle yo
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