2nd Survey Finds Astronauts Havenât Drunk Before Flights
109769
A new survey of astronauts and flight surgeons shows no evidence of crew membersâ going on space missions drunk or impaired by alcohol, NASA officials said.
399334
NASA's safety chief said yesterday that he could find no evidence of heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not dismissing reports from an independent panel on astronaut health issues that said last month that at least two such incidents had come to its attention.
53945
NASA yesterday released partial results of a massive air-safety survey of airline pilots who repeatedly complained about fatigue, problems with air-traffic controllers, airport security, and the layouts of runways and taxiways.
64123
Alcohol, not drugs, linked to incidents, says survey.
703427
Two pilots whose plane crashed on takeoff after they turned onto the wrong runway had no trace of alcohol or illegal drugs in their systems, federal safety investigators said Monday.
89164
By Nolan Rosenkrans, Philadelphia Daily News  Feb. 23--Despite the remarkable technical feat of space travel and the high-level skills that astronauts need, being one isn't quite as prestigious as it used to be.
410462
NASA has been screening astronauts for  decades and isn't supposed to let loose screws through. Is it not as good as we thought? Or are astronauts more fragile than they seem?
589980
1st LD: Astronauts on space station notice foul odor    WASHINGTON, Sept.
480591
Now there&#39;s something else for airline passengers to worry about -- the safety of their drinking water. New tests show nearly one of out every eight passenger airliners flying in the United States has drinking
734432
CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA does not conduct psychological evaluations of its astronauts but will reconsider that policy following the apparent meltdown of Lisa Nowak, charged with attempted murder in Florida, agency officials said Wednesday.
605099
The crew of the International Space Station is not in danger of running out of oxygen, Russian controllers said Friday. Gennady Padalka and Michael Fincke are breathing oxygen from reserves aboard the station, Itar-Tass reported.
725353
Two Discovery astronauts started the second spacewalk of their 12-day mission to carry out work on the International Space Station, NASA said.
252779
HOUSTON -- Despite facing down tough computer glitches amidst a busy mission to build up the International Space Station (ISS), spirits are high among the ten astronauts aboard the orbital laboratory.
341128
By MIKE SCHNEIDER  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - For a second day in a row, astronauts began toiling like construction workers during a six-hour spacewalk, bringing to life a new 17 1/2-ton addition to the international space station today.
61292
As a new crew prepares to lift off Wednesday for the international space station, NASA officials say they are less worried than they were two weeks ago about problems with its oxygen generator
702714
By RASHA MADKOUR  HOUSTON - For the second straight day, spacewalking astronauts toiled on a brand-new 17 1/2-ton addition to the international space station, removing protective covers and loosening latches and bolts that held the hardware down during the jolting ride into orbit.
322212
Astronauts and NASA  flight surgeons overwhelmingly dismissed reports of a  crewmember flying drunk, although they did confirm a single  incident of an astronaut seemingly inebriated a few days before  liftoff, an employee survey released on Wednesday showed.