Astro Snort! Cocain found in Space Shuttle Hangar...

[Analog]

A BAG of cocaine has been found in a Space Shuttle hangar - sparking a Nasa investigation.

US space chiefs fear an employee was seeking a different kind of out-of-this-world experience in the restricted area at Kennedy Space Centre, Florida.
About 200 staff and contractors have access to the hangar, which houses the shuttle Discovery.
Six astronauts including Briton Nick Patrick are due to blast off in March. But space chiefs insisted the mission goes ahead as planned.
The US space agency started testing and interviewing all staff on Wednesday.
Drug sniffer dogs were also brought in to find the culprit. Three years ago, Nasa was forced to deny allegations of boozy parties after an official report claimed two astronauts had flown into space while drunk. The discovery of drugs in a hangar before a mission raises safety concerns and will embarrass new Nasa chief Charlie Bolden.
Nasa spokesman Allard Beutel said: "There are no obvious indications of anyone acting oddly or under the influence. People know how serious this is - it's not acceptable."

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepag...ro-snorts-in-cocaine-probe.html#ixzz0ck0Aj4EQ
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[destrekor]

Hey, someone wanted to get higher than high. Is that so wrong?

 

[Colt45]

There are drug users in every field.

/thread

 

[shocksyde]

Blast off.

 

[techs]

There are drug users in every field.

Yeah, and I live 8 miles from a nuclear power plant!

 

[destrekor]

There are drug users in every field.

/thread

:hmm:
So, even rocket scientists can handle drugs, is this what you are implying?

If so, I might agree.

I say, that's a healthy argument for legalization, amirite?

:awe:

 

[TheRickRoller]

Three years ago, Nasa was forced to deny allegations of boozy parties after an official report claimed two astronauts had flown into space while drunk.

flown into space

while drunk

The world's finest, living the dream :awe:

 

[Godsend1]

You should have seen some of the people overhauling nuclear submarines. D:

 

[Rubycon]

Yeah, and I live 8 miles from a nuclear power plant!

That's why they are telling you to SCRAM!

 

[dawp]

space coke, man

 

[El Guaraguao]

space cowboys.

 

[JohnCU]

Yeah, and I live 8 miles from a nuclear power plant!

50% of nuclear power plant employees are randomly drug tested each year.

 

[KK]

You'd have to get me high or drunk to fly on those POS shuttles they got.

 

[ebaycj]

I wonder if snorting coke is adversely affected by a Zero-G environment

 

[bignateyk]

It would take at least a gram of coke for me to think about strapping myself to a giant rocket and shooting myself into outer space...

 

[bignateyk]

50% of nuclear power plant employees are randomly drug tested each year.

60% of the time, drug testing works every time.

 

[JohnCU]

there is not enough whiskey in the world for me to fly on the shuttle

 

[dawp]

I would do it strait, just bring my woman along for some real fun.

 

[shortylickens]

I would do it strait, just bring my woman along for some real fun.

WAIT, ANANDTECH! I've got it!

Zero-G hookers and blow!

 

[Rubycon]

there is not enough whiskey in the world for me to fly on the shuttle

You should at least get a chance on the vomit comet though. Some people aren't cut out for prolonged weightlessness.

 

[Red Squirrel]

Guess he was looking to discover something out of this world.

 

[Red Squirrel]

there is not enough whiskey in the world for me to fly on the shuttle

I think it would be fun to go actually. Maybe when prices go down I'll go for a ride.

 

[F1N3ST]

WAIT, ANANDTECH! I've got it!

Zero-G hookers and blow!

:awe: Agreed! Over 9000 too.

 

[BUTCH1]

50% of nuclear power plant employees are randomly drug tested each year.

If it's standard urinalysis it's nothing to make you feel safer, there pretty easy to beat..

 

[Freshgeardude]

wow, whoever wrote that article needs to get their facts straight.


http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/main/index.html

Liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida is targeted for February 7, 2010, at 4:39 a.m. EST

they said march.



anyways, this is slightly surprising. wonder how a person could bring in a bag of coke into a secure building as this one.