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Why Astronauts Are Banned From Getting Drunk in Space (bbc.com)
Bryan Lufkin, writing for BBC: "Alcohol is not permitted onboard the International Space Station for consumption," says Daniel G Huot, spokesperson for Nasa's Johnson Space Center. "Use of alcohol and other volatile compounds are controlled on ISS due to impacts their compounds can have on the station's water recovery system." For this reason, astronauts on the space station are not even provided with products that contain alcohol, like mouthwash, perfume, or aftershave. Spilling beer during some drunken orbital hijinks could also risk damaging equipment. [...] There could be another reason to avoid frothy drinks like beer -- without the assistance of gravity, liquid and gases can tumble around in an astronaut's stomach, causing them to produce rather soggy burps.
Read the headline carefully, Cosmonauts are not banned from drinking in space, only Astronauts.
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Russians can hold their liquor, as pretty much all of them are long-term alcholics. American's can't handle their liquor and turn into drunken louts.
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Except 99% of the work on the international space station is experiments in zero gravity. The ISS isn't very good for astronomy or taking any kind of cosmic readings and it's not a good platform for making earth observations either. We go to the ISS for zero G.