I couldn’t understand some parts of this article, but it sounds interesting…

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. . .Shuttle commander Scott Kelly stated, “This is a serious business we’re in here. I’m proud of your team for getting Endeavour ready to go fly. I’m also proud of my crew and the rest of the astronaut office for their competence and professionalism for consistently making something that is incredibly difficult look easy.”

Kelly’s comments followed a recent letter he wrote to the media, strongly defending the astronaut office in the wake of a NASA-chartered medical report that included anecdotal allegations of at least some instances of alcohol abuse in the past. NASA is currently carrying out an internal investigation to determine whether the alleged incidents actually occurred. So far, NASA Administrator Mike Griffin said today, investigators have not found any evidence supporting the allegations in the report.

“We are conducting a full-scale investigation, flight by flight, to determine whether it’s even reasonable or possible that a crew under the influence of alcohol got on a space shuttle, or a Soyuz or third, on a T-38 (jet trainer),” he said. “We’ll look at all that. Right now, we’ve gone back 10 years. And we can’t even find where it would be a possibility that there was a crew under the influence on either a (Russian) Soyuz or a shuttle.”

But Griffin stressed the probe is not yet complete. The allegations are “extremely serious,” he said, and “I take it as my responsibility to find out.”