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NASA Finds Cocaine In Space Shuttle Hanger

Posted by samzenpus on from the doing-lines dept.

SpuriousLogic writes "NASA is trying to sniff out which employee brought a baggie of cocaine into the hangar that houses Space Shuttle Discovery at Kennedy Space Center in Florida this week. The space agency is preparing the shuttle for a launch to the International Space Station in March. Spaceport officials said an employee found the bag Thursday morning outside a bathroom in the restricted shuttle hangar, Orbiter Processing Facility No. 3. The employee notified security, which conducted tests confirming that a 'small amount' of cocaine remained in the bag."

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  1. Florida by dasmoo · · Score: 1

    Well, good luck with that guys, I'm sure there's only one or two people in Florida with bags of cocaine.

  2. Costs by Yvan256 · · Score: 1

    Maybe NASA are testing cheaper ways to take off?

    1. Re:Costs by GiveBenADollar · · Score: 1

      Guess they were using a different kind of rocket fuel.

  3. well by Xeno+man · · Score: 1

    Not everyone can get higher than ever by being an astronaut. Everyone else needs to find another way.

  4. Difficult in space by heretic108 · · Score: 1

    One wonders how, without gravity, an astronaut would be able to chop and spread out a line on the mirror. Guess (s)he would just have to stick the rolled $100 bill into a tiny opening in the bag and snort, but that would be wasteful with unchopped coke.

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    1. Re:Difficult in space by Tsaroth · · Score: 1

      Just chop it all up on Earth before launch, then do it in orbit. You wouldn't even need the mirror. Just have lines free-floating in the middle of the station!!!

      And now that I've said this, | just know one of those people paying millions for a ride into space is going to try it.

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    2. Re:Difficult in space by Chrisje · · Score: 1

      As a Dutchman I have to make a case for weed. It's far easier to handle in low gravity.

    3. Re:Difficult in space by woody.jesus · · Score: 1

      It will be a great day for mankind when the first zero-G bong is tested. "That's one small puff for a man, one giant toke for mankind"

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    4. Re:Difficult in space by mhajicek · · Score: 2, Funny

      Cue obligatory Flying Dutchman comment.

    5. Re:Difficult in space by Locke2005 · · Score: 1

      Single word solution for zero-g administering of coke: eyedrops.

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  5. Odd that by edittard · · Score: 1

    This is particularly puzzling because that wasn't where they lost it.

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  6. The Red Bull stopped working by gubers33 · · Score: 1

    They needed to stay up some how... it just wasn't the most legal way.

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  7. "Small Amount" by batquux · · Score: 1

    How many football fields is that?

  8. Well, it helps explain... by d23tek · · Score: 1

    ...the whole Lisa Nowak traveling-cross-country-in-diapers-to-kill-my-romantic-rival thing. You get coked up enough and that starts to make sense.

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