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NASA to launch safety review of SpaceX and Boeing after video of Elon Musk smoking pot rankled agency leaders

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November 20, 2018 NASA has ordered a safety review of the two companies it has hired to fly astronauts to the International Space Station, a months-long assessment that would involve hundreds of interviews designed to evaluate the culture of the workplaces, the agency said.

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This list features 6 signs it's already the future.

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A few astronauts may have given new meaning to the term "flying high." Last week NASA disclosed that an independent review panel had "identified some episodes of heavy use of alcohol by astronauts in the immediate preflight period," according to the panel's report. In two specific instances, astronauts "had been so intoxicated prior to flight that flight surgeons and/or fellow astronauts raised concerns to local on-scene leadership regarding flight safety," the report says. "However, the individuals were still permitted to fly."

The panel was appointed by NASA after the much-publicized love triangle involving astronaut Lisa Nowak (she pleaded not guilty to charges she tried to kidnap a romantic rival). At a press conference last Friday, a NASA official clarified that one of the alleged incidents involved a spacecraft used to carry crew members to the International Space Station and the other involved a shuttle mission that ended up delayed.

The revelations come at a sensitive time. NASA has struggled to rebuild its image after the space-shuttle Columbia disaster in 2003-a task complicated by reports of equipment malfunctions and embarrassing episodes like the Nowak affair. NASA also disclosed last week that a worker deliberately cut wires in equipment headed for the International Space Station; the sabotage was detected and would've posed no danger, officials said. Now, little more than a week away from the scheduled launch of the orbiter Endeavour, the agency is enduring yet another spate of bad press. NASA officials said they took the alcohol report seriously, would launch an internal review, draw up a code of conduct and stiffen policies on preflight drinking.

The space community was stunned. The panel's findings are "very difficult to square with the astronaut corps I've known," says Thomas Jones, who flew on four space-shuttle missions. "Why would any idiot drink alcohol and endanger their chance to go again?" The effects of intoxication would be exacerbated while hurtling through space. Lying on your back with 4.5G's of pressure feels "like someone is standing on your chest," says Jonathan Clark, a NASA flight surgeon whose astronaut wife died in the Columbia disaster. "If you throw up on ascent, it is going to be a big deal ... You could inhale it." Not exactly a happy buzz.

- Catharine Skipp and Arian Campo-Flores

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A few astronauts may have given new meaning to the term "flying high." Last week NASA disclosed that an independent review panel had "identified some episodes of heavy use of alcohol by astronauts in the immediate preflight period," according to the panel's report. In two specific instances,