NASA says no evidence of drunk astronauts

NASA has reviewed 10 years of space flights and found no evidence to back up allegations that astronauts boarded a space shuttle and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft drunk, the US space agency’s boss said on Wednesday.

NASA has reviewed 10 years of space flights and found no evidence to back up allegations that astronauts boarded a space shuttle and a Russian Soyuz spacecraft drunk, the US space agency’s boss said on Wednesday.

The agency was investigating every flight involving shuttles, the Soyuz and the T-38 trainer jets flown by astronauts, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin told reporters.

“Right now, we’ve gone back 10 years and we can’t even find where it would be a possibility there was crew under the influence on either a Soyuz or a shuttle,” he said.

The claim emerged last month in a report by a panel of health experts who had been asked to check on the astronaut corps’ health and screening policies in the aftermath of the arrest of a former astronaut, Lisa Nowak, accused of stalking a love rival.

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