ASTRONAUTS were allowed to fly although their colleagues and flight surgeons warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, according to media reports.

An internal NASA panel also reported “heavy use of alcohol” within the standard 12-hour “bottle to throttle” abstinence rule applied to NASA flight-crew members, Aviation Week & Space Technology magazine said.

A NASA spokesman was not immediately available for comment, but NASA will hold a press conference today.

In anticipation of the report’s formal release, one US politician was primed to seek answers from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

“If the reports of drunken astronauts being allowed to fly prove to be true, I think the agency will have a lot of explaining to do,” said Bart Gordon, chairman of the House of Representatives’ science and technology committee.

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