NASA Finds Cocaine At Space Center--AGAIN

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA is investigating after cocaine was found in a facility at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

NASA spokesman Allard Beutel said Tuesday that 4.2 grams of a white powdery substance was found last week at the NASA facility, though he would not say where.

It tested positive for cocaine.

It's not the first time cocaine has been found at the space center.

A small amount was discovered in January 2010 in a secure part of a hangar that housed space shuttle Discovery. A spokeswoman from NASA's Inspector General Office in Washington declined to comment on how that case was resolved.

Comments

[Mr Sick Of Greed]

05:48 PM on 03/18/2011

maybe they hired Charlie Sheen? I know he is looking for work.....

[Balzac]

05:34 PM on 03/18/2011

NASA needs some of that energy.

[jsarets]

04:24 AM on 03/18/2011

NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft just became the first man-made object to enter into orbit around the planet Mercury. It is also the first spacecraft to visit the innermost planet of our solar system since the Mariner 10 probe made its final flyby in 1975.

The orbital mechanics of Mercurial exploration are exceptionally difficult because of the strong gravitational pull of the nearby Sun. The MESSENGER mission was made possible by an innovative trajectory developed by NASA astrophysicists involving a series of gravitational slingshots around Earth, Venus, and Mercury before last night's rocket-powered orbital insertion.

MESSENGER carries two optical cameras, gamma-ray spectrometer, neutron spectrometer, x-ray spectrometer, magnetometer, laser altimeter, two radiometers, and two plasma spectrometers.

[calilife4me]

09:17 PM on 03/17/2011

If only my parents could afford space camp, I'd be flying high right now.

[calilife4me]

09:16 PM on 03/17/2011

I should've been an astronaut. Sounds like NASA lays down lines on the bathroom counter; right next to the condom dispenser.

[LMPE]

07:33 PM on 03/17/2011

Who let Charlie Sheen into the Space Center?

[tednarcotic]

07:08 PM on 03/17/2011

I don't do cocaine but if I did NASA sounds like it would be out of this world!

[edwoodjr]

02:22 PM on 03/17/2011

Someone lost a lot of blow, Houston.

[Unrepentant]

03:27 PM on 03/17/2011

"a lot"?

That's 1/7th of an ounce!

[klir2m]

04:46 PM on 03/17/2011

Yeah that's a lot. Oh wait I was thinking about m.eth. 4.7 grams of that goes surprisingly far. But the other stuff, yeah gone in 2 hours.

[klir2m]

04:47 PM on 03/17/2011

4.2 grams even.

[WhereBeTheOilBeezys]

07:33 PM on 03/17/2011

That is going to be a b*tch trying to get a drug dealer to come to you in space.

[edwoodjr]

12:22 PM on 03/19/2011

Guy with a backpack on a Jetson's spacebike.

[Acebass]

12:39 PM on 03/17/2011

Oh wow someone in NASA does cocaine...Reality hits the space agency...

[Waterphoneman]

11:55 AM on 03/17/2011

What a surprise. If truth were known all kinds of substances have probably been rocketed off into space for both official and unofficial testing.

[jwb2013]

10:49 AM on 03/17/2011

nice to know there is more than one way to get high.

[Rachel Lena Esterline]

10:03 AM on 03/17/2011

I can't wait to work for NASA

[LangstonA]

10:41 PM on 03/16/2011

Remember reading about Lisa Nowak? She was the female astronaught who drove 900 miles in her own urine soaked adult diapers in order to attempt to kidnap a woman she thought was having sex with her manstress (http://goo.gl/SRaqy)? I'm not the least bit surprised to hear there is cocaine at NASA.

[slightlybent]

09:32 PM on 03/16/2011

Now we know why their budget is so HIGH!