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Both ABC and CBS covered the leak of a report by a NASA panel on astronaut stress. It revealed that two astronauts were reported as still inebriated from night-before drinking but went ahead into orbit anyway. CBS' Nancy Cordes gave a hat-tip to the magazine Aviation Weekly for its scoop: she reported that one drunken flight was with Russian cosmonauts on the Soyuz spacecraft, on which an astronaut "would basically be along for the ride;" the second was on a T-38 high-speed training jet. ABC's Mike von Fremd did not mention the magazine as his source. He said the two astronauts were on separate Space Shuttle missions.
Andrew Tyndall 8/5/07 4:55:49 am

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