The Daily Populous Wednesday April 21st, 2021 night edition
Authored by supercluster.com and submitted by EricFromOuterSpace

In the early days of its human spaceflight program, astronauts would often prank each other by stashing small amounts of booze on a spacecraft before launch. When Wally Schirra blasted into orbit in 1962 as one of the original seven astronauts chosen for NASA’s Mercury program, he discovered that someone had stashed a pack of smokes and a small bottle of scotch in the capsule before launch. (Schirra waited until he was safely back on Earth to indulge.) And during the Apollo 8 mission around the moon, astronaut Deke Slayton had stashed a few small bottles of brandy in the astronauts’ holiday meal kit. It was all in good fun, but Frank Borman, the Apollo 8 commander, wasn’t having it. “I didn’t think it was funny at all,” he later said. “If we’d have drunk one drop of that damn brandy and the thing would have blown up on the way home, they’d have blamed it on the brandy.”

WhatACunningHam on April 20th, 2021 at 14:51 UTC »

Apparently the military bans porn while deployed overseas. I asked my friend who was in Iraq about that. He was like, yeah, good luck enforcing that.

topcat5 on April 20th, 2021 at 14:27 UTC »

> Former cosmonaut Alexander Lazutkin told Interfax in 2010 that during the prolonged space missions and especially when the Space Age was kickstarting, “we had alcoholic drinks in the cosmonauts.” He also claimed that the medical professionals specifically recommended the cognac in a bid to ‘stimulate’ the immune systems of the cosmonauts and ‘on the whole to keep organisms in tone’

TheGreatNoobasaurus on April 20th, 2021 at 14:23 UTC »

The ISS is half Russian.... There's alcohol on board