What’s Space travel without a little alcohol and sabotage?
NASA has released two reports that claim Astronauts on more than one occasion were drunk before liftoff and that recently a computer was sabotaged. Awesome.
Aviation Week & Space Technology reported on its Web site that a special panel studying astronaut health found that on two occasions, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a safety risk.
The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” before launch — within the standard 12-hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule, the magazine reported.
What is “Bottle-to-throttle”? I’m going to start using this term and make sure it takes. Whenever I’m in a hurry: “Let’s go, the game is starting. Bottle-to-throttle.”
This whole episode just proves there is no reason for a man space program. These guys don’t even fly the ‘ship’ they just sit on top of the rocket.
Bottle-to-throttle.
Come on, that thing needs way more charcoal. Bottle-to-throttle, baby.
That’s strange, I just saw a comic book titled “Bottle to Throttle” and thought about how cool of a phrase it is.
Cool enough of a phrase that only Astronauts have been using it for the last 40 years… until now.
Bottle to Throttle.