NASA Finds Cocaine In Space Shuttle Hanger

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."

Florida

[dasmoo]

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

Costs

[Yvan256]

Maybe NASA are testing cheaper ways to take off?

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[GiveBenADollar]

Guess they were using a different kind of rocket fuel.

well

[Xeno man]

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

Difficult in space

[heretic108]

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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[Tsaroth]

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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[Chrisje]

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

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[woody.jesus]

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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[mhajicek]

Cue obligatory Flying Dutchman comment.

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[Locke2005]

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

Odd that

[edittard]

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

The Red Bull stopped working

[gubers33]

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

"Small Amount"

[batquux]

How many football fields is that?

Well, it helps explain...

[d23tek]

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