Not a good look to go against the point of what I'm tryna say.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AP) -- Astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk on at least two occasions, an aviation weekly reported Thursday.An independent panel reportedly found that flight surgeons allowed intoxicated astronauts to fly on space shuttle.It cited a special panel studying astronaut health, which found "heavy use of alcohol" before launch that was within the standard 12-hour "bottle-to-throttle" rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology. It reported the finding on its Web site.A NASA official confirmed the health report contains claims of alcohol use by astronauts before launch, but said the information is based on anonymous interviews and is unsubstantiated. The official didn't want to be named because NASA plans a news conference Friday to discuss the panel's findings....Asked if he had ever personally had to deal with a safety issue involving an inebriated astronaut in space, Gerstenmaier replied: "The obvious answer is no. I've never had any instances of that." (Editor's Note: )"There's not been a disciplinary action or anything I've been involved with regarding this type of activity," he said.In Washington, the chairman of the House Science and Technology committee said he hadn't seen the report, "but if the reports of drunken astronauts being allowed to fly prove to be true, I think the agency will have a lot of explaining to do.""That's not the 'right stuff' as far as I'm concerned," said Bart Gordon, D-Tennessee.The Aviation Week report doesn't make clear when the alleged incidents occurred, nor does it say whether the intoxication involved crew members who have no role in flying the shuttle or whether it was the pilot and commander.Aviation Week said the report citing drunkenness does not deal directly with Nowak [crazy chick that tried to kill another astronaut] or mention any other astronaut by name.
