NASA Report Finds No Evidence of Drunk Astronauts
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NASA's safety chief said today that he could find no evidence of heavy drinking by astronauts before space launches -- undermining but not wholly dismissing reports from an independent panel on astronaut health issues that said last month that at least two such incidents that had come to its...
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Nothing to see here NASA has denied covering up its first survey of airline pilots on safety, despite releasing the figures late on New Year's Eve and in pdf format rather than Excel files, making independent number-crunching more difficult.â¦
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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.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO  HOUSTON - While engineers try to determine what caused the failure of Russian computers that control the international space station's orientation, oxygen and water supplies, a NASA official said Thursday he doesn't consider the situation critical.
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There were no signs that a mystery   object near shuttle Atlantis had fallen from or damaged the   spacecraft, but cautious NASA managers on Wednesday ordered   more inspections after an initial search just to be sure.
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By Martin Merzer, The Miami Herald  Sep. 21--Extensive inspections detected no damage to shuttle Atlantis, and its six astronauts were cleared to land this morning at the Kennedy Space Center, mission managers said Wednesday.   The crew, led by Brent Jett Jr.
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COLOGNE, Germany - The chemical leak in the International Space Station earlier this week was much less dramatic than it initially appeared and did not cause anyone to fall ill, German astronaut Thomas Reiter said Friday.
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NASA reported a bad smell on the   International Space Station on Monday but said there was no   smoke on the outpost.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida  - NASA on Wednesday rejected claims that drunk astronauts flew on spaceships and jets, and the head of the U.S. space agency dismissed one tale of high-flying inebriation as "urban legend."
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NYPD sources are reported to have said sleeping pills were found at the scene, but no suicide note.
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By Seth Borenstein Associated Press  HOUSTON -- NASA gave space shuttle Atlantis the all-clear to come home today after a stem-to-stern inspection prompted by a mysterious flurry of orbital litter found no damage to the ship.
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This weekend as the seven astronauts relax before Tuesday's blastoff into space, the beer will be cold and waiting at crew quarters at Kennedy Space Center. No one will monitor how much they drink, no breath tests given.
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By Washington Post  The space station leak was not considered a serious health threat to the crew.
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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.
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Astronauts will attempt to repair the primary oxygen generator on the international space station, and plenty of backup oxygen sources mean Russian Gennady Padalka and American Mike Fincke are in no danger, NASA said Thursday.
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A spokesperson for David Hasselhoff denied a report Thursday that the former "Baywatch" and "Knight Rider" star had been turned away from a British Airways flight because he was drunk.
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There's been only one incident of a NASA crew member being impaired by drugs or alcohol close to a launch, but never on a launch day, according to a new survey of active-duty astronauts and flight surgeons.