What Drugs Do Astronauts Take?

Posted by Soulskill on Friday December 4, 2009 @10:11PM from the just-boosterspice-for-me-thanks dept.

astroengine writes "Science fiction is stuffed full of examples of pill-popping space explorers and aliens enjoying psychedelic highs. After all, space is big; it can get boring/scary/crazy up there. It's little wonder, then, that our current space explorers consume a cocktail of uppers, downers, tranquilizers and alcohol to get the job done. Robert Lamb on tranquilizers in the space station: 'Sure, it hardly makes for a civilized evening aboard ISS, but it beats someone blowing the hatch because they think they saw something crawling on one of the solar panels.'"

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Let's see how... by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-04 22:17 · Score: -1, Offtopic

many seconds until someone makes a Twilight reference to the last line of the summary.
fox news by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-04 22:20 · Score: -1, Offtopic

yuck.
Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · 2009-12-04 22:26 · Score: -1, Offtopic

I for one welcome our cybernetic overlords!
and....
In Soviet Russia, hand's thoughts control you!
Re:Let's see how... (correction) by MrNaz · 2009-12-04 22:45 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I haven't seen the movie yet. For a moment there you had me thinking I was in for an even weirder movie than I'm already expecting.

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