# Has NASA done any experiments with alcohol and zero G? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 16, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601 "2009-05-16T02:23:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/1 "2009-05-16T02:23:38Z")
Basically, I want to know if NASA has done any experiments with drunk astronauts. ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/2 "2009-05-16T02:54:36Z")
They have, but they didn’t plan to. At least that’s their story. It was in the news a while back, although I’m too lazy to provide a cite just now. Around the time of the lady astronaut with the diapers. The gist of it was that some astronauts were supposedly intoxicated right up to launch. I don’t think it was proven, though. ---
**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/3 "2009-05-16T03:52:32Z")
I don’t know about NASA but I have a hard time believing that the Russians didn’t bring booze up there with them. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/4 "2009-05-16T05:08:08Z")
[Alcohol cloud spotted in deep space](http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1607840.htm) 463 billion kilometers wide. If we you thought there was no reason to travel into deep space, think again. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 5:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/5 "2009-05-16T05:15:12Z")
I understand those EVA field sobriety tests are a real bear. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/6 "2009-05-16T07:34:52Z")
> [@MEBuckner](#): > > I understand those EVA field sobriety tests are a real bear. Yeah, you have to spin in only one axis. ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/7 "2009-05-16T17:38:57Z")
> [@Mach Tuck](#): > > They have, but they didn’t plan to. At least that’s their story. It was in the news a while back, although I’m too lazy to provide a cite just now. Around the time of the lady astronaut with the diapers. > > The gist of it was that some astronauts were supposedly intoxicated right up to launch. I don’t think it was proven, though. [Disproven](http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/01/23/astronaut.survey/index.html). ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/8 "2009-05-16T18:21:37Z")
> [@NinjaChick](#): > > [Disproven](http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/space/01/23/astronaut.survey/index.html). Hardly – a self-reporting survey is not what I would call proof, or disproof, of anything. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/9 "2009-05-16T19:13:56Z")
Ask yourself : would \*you \*want to clean-up puke in a zero G environment ? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/10 "2009-05-16T19:19:59Z")
The astronauts keep trying to talk mission control into doing it, but mission control says they have to do more tests on the bottles. ---
**Author:** ![Jamicat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c67d28/32.png) [@Jamicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamicat)\ **Post date:** [May 16, 2009, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/has-nasa-done-any-experiments-with-alcohol-and-zero-g/496601/11 "2009-05-16T19:42:46Z")
There were rumors… [http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Russian+official+denies+report+astronaut+was+drunk+aboard+Soyuz+space](http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Russian+official+denies+report+astronaut+was+drunk+aboard+Soyuz+space)…-a01611377793 > [@](#): > > Despite official denials of drinking before Russian flights to the space station, cosmonauts aboard the Mir space station, which has since been abandoned,\*\* were permitted to imbibe moderately.\*\* Cosmonaut Alexander Poleshchuk Alexander Fedorovich Poleschuk (Russian: Александр Фёдорович Полещук, born October 30 1953) is a Russian cosmonaut. , who flew aboard the Mir space station in 1993, told newspapers of removing panels to hunt for bottles of cognac squirreled away by previous tenants.