Wednesday Afternoon Open Thread (Now Without Drunken Astronauts)
Charles Johnson
Wed Aug 29, 2007 at 1:46 pm PDT • Views: 250
Brown shoes don’t make it.
— Frank Zappa
UPDATE at 8/29/07 1:49:51 pm:
And by the way, there were no drunken astronauts.
WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA’s safety chief Wednesday dismissed sensational claims that astronauts had been drunk on flight missions, boosting the US space agency’s battle to repair its tarnished credibility.
A month-long review by head of safety Bryan O’Connor found no proof to the claims, which were made in July by a panel of outside experts investigating crew healthcare after a female astronaut’s bizarre antics against a love rival.
O’Connor, himself a former astronaut, reported that “I was unable to verify any case in which an astronaut space flight crew member was impaired on launch day.”
Frank says: