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Topic: Alcohol in space
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Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-20-2006 08:06 AM
   
Who took the first bottle of alcohol into space? Most probably the Russian cosmonauts but also French astronaut Patrick BAUDRY took a bottle of fine French wine into LEO.
Did any of the Belgian astronauts Dirk FRIMOUT or Frank DE WINNE take chocolate liquers into orbit? Probably not so I guess the first alcohol in space was drunk onboard the Russian space station MIR in the second half of the 1980s ... |
cosmos-walter
Member Posts: 691
From: Salzburg, Austria
Registered: Jun 2003
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posted 02-20-2006 11:24 AM
Vladimir Remek from Czechoslovakia entered Salyut-6 space station in March 1978. Georgi Grechko was board engineer of long duration crew that time. He told me, that Remek brought a tin can of bear from his country. |
Philip
Member Posts: 5952
From: Brussels, Belgium
Registered: Jan 2001
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posted 02-20-2006 12:43 PM
Well that's an amzing reply ... as early as Salyut 6 !? |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-20-2006 12:43 PM
I think it was Chaikin's book that talks about miniature bottles of brandy being placed aboard Apollo 8 for each astronaut as a Christmas gift for them to enjoy on their return from the moon (along with a turkey dinner). I recall reading that Borman was upset and told his crew not to drink the brandy...because if anything went wrong with the flight, someone in the press would blame it on the alcohol.[This message has been edited by mjanovec (edited February 20, 2006).] |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3161
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-22-2006 11:53 PM
Maybe still not the first, but predating all of those, Wally Schirra carried a bottle of scotch into space on his Mercury mission - see the bottom of this page:
www.wallyschirra.com/gotcha.htm |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 02-23-2006 01:19 PM
On a somewhat unrelated topic, does anyone know how much drinking water the Mercury astronauts carried into space? I would assume very little was needed for Shepard's or Grissom's flight (other than for the long moments they waited to be launched). But I would assume Glenn, Carpenter, Schirra, and especially Cooper needed to bring water with them. And what sort of system was used to store and dispense the water?After all, they needed something to wash down those suicide pills, in case something went wrong.  |
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