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Old 07-26-2007, 05:41 PM  
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U.S. astronauts flew while drunk -- twice

...and everybody is concerned with falling pieces of foam


WASHINGTON, July 26 (RIA Novosti) - A NASA medical panel has established that U.S. astronauts flew while heavily intoxicated on at least two occasions, an international aviation weekly reported Thursday.

Aviation Week & Space Technology, which obtained the panel's findings, said "flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so intoxicated that they posed a flight-safety risk."

A member of the medical panel, which comprises doctors, psychologists, legal and security experts and several astronauts, said on condition of anonymity that the report was still in a draft form and could be released in August.

A press conference on the issue is scheduled for Friday.

http://en.rian.ru/world/20070726/69760932.html
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