So some astronauts may have flown drunk.

They were going into space, people. Give them a break.

Those ships are on autopilot the whole way. Anything that goes wrong can't be fixed by a passenger—which is what astronauts are during launch and re-entry—so there's little for them to do but maintain the La-Z-Boy position while computers and God make life/death decisions all around them.

If ground ops didn't strap me in with a shot of brandy, that would be my last space mission. And I'd scream the whole way into orbit just to make that point.

Read The Right Stuff if you still don't get it.

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