Astronauts Smuggle Booze In Space, Apparently

Astronauts are human, too. And because they’re human, they are not immune to enjoying a good drink, and that is why some of them smuggle alcohol aboard the International Space Station. Astronauts are good at smuggling that kind of stuff, too.

According to a new book, a lot of astronauts have done the same thing. Routinely! According to a phenomenal rundown of the history of booze in space on Supercluster, astronauts are saucing in orbit all the time. For example:

“NASA will tell you there is no alcohol aboard the ISS,” NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson told [2019’s “Alcohol in Space” author Chris Carberry]. “As a person who lived there for five months, I’ll tell you that’s bogus.”

But it’s not just for fun that they smuggle alcohol in space.

For one thing, learning about the way booze behaves, at a chemical level, in a zero-g environment informs the scientific development of it down here (and there have been several cargo payloads containing alcohol used for experiments that’ve already made it into orbit).

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