In 2018 , a photo began circulating the Internet , appear to show Canadian cosmonaut Chris Hadfield on board the International Space Station ( ISS ) book a gigantic baggie of marihuana .
The image , of class , is a humbug . In fact , Hadfield was holding a much more wholesome bag of Easter bollock to deal with his fellow crewmates . But has anybody ever smoke dope in distance ? How about inebriant and cigarettes ?
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Has anybody ever drunk alcohol in space?
First up , undecomposed old - fashioned intoxicant . One of the principal advantage of inebriant as a substance to use in space is that you do n’t have to coiffure it on fire to feel its effects . As long as you do n’t " really fancy a flaming zombie " it would be possible to get intoxicated in space with minimal jeopardy to your surroundings . Nevertheless , it is prohibited on board the ISS .
“ Alcohol is not permitted onboard the International Space Station for consumption , ” Daniel G Huot , spokesperson for NASA ’s Johnson Space Center , told theBBCin 2017 . “ Use of alcoholic drink and other volatile compounds are controlled on [ the ] ISS due to impacts their compounds can have on the station ’s pee retrieval organisation . ”
That say , we know for certain that one person has takenalcoholinto space , before drinking it on the Moon . During Apollo 11 , the first human spaceflight to the lunar surface , Buzz Aldrin shoot vino and bread from the Webster Presbyterian Church in Houston for privately perform communion on himself .
" I poured the vino into the chalice our church had given me , " Aldrin explicate in a 1970 piece for Guideposts magazine , per theGuardian . " In the one - 6th gravitational force of the moon the vino curl tardily and graciously up the side of the loving cup . It was interesting to think that the very first liquid ever poured on the moon , and the first food eaten there , were Holy Communion elements . "
Has anybody ever smoked cigarettes in space?
fume in space is a little more dangerous , and prohibited on the ISS . Fire experimentation have beenperformed in outer space , though this is obviously a small more curb than fall up a cigarette , and free of most of the contaminant that cigarette smoke produces .
Nevertheless , there are credible ( if not alone support ) reports of Russian spaceman smoke butt on space post Mir , as well as fuddle hard liquor . During a joint Russian - US mission in 1995 , US astronauts supposedly found that cosmonauts had a much more interesting option of supply .
" Peggy Whitson , the NASA scientist who supervised the American science plan for Norm Thagard ’s mission to Mir in 1995 , was dismayed to find that the cosmonauts in reality smoked cigaret and drank vodka aboard the station , " Bryan Burrough explained in the 1998 bookDragonfly : NASA and the crisis aboard MIR .
" The vodka , she attain , was stored inside half - liter ' drinkable bags ' that were sent up on Progress supply ships under the pretense of ' psychological support ' textile . At one point , Whitson watched an American technician jokingly show off one of the vodka bag . ' I said , " It ’s not a joke , " ' she remember . “ If Safety experience , it would have a moo-cow . ” Whitson was equally concerned that drinking vodka , a diuretic drug , would ruin American skill data on the cosmonaut ’ diet . "
Has anybody ever smoked weed in space?
unluckily , for anybody show how cool it would be toget highin space , there is no believable evidence of anybody lighting up a blunt in zero - g. The problem , like with alcohol , is that you do n’t really want anybody to be impaired up there , as well as all the issues around smoke contamination .
“ The problem is , in blank now , many things will pour down you . So if you do anything to alter your understanding of what is world , that ’s not in the interest of your health , " Neil deGrasse Tyson excuse in an consultation withTMZon the topic . " If you desire to get mellow in space , lock yourself in your cabin and do n’t come out . ‘Cause you could divulge clobber … inadvertently . ”
There have been plans to sendhemp seedsto the ISS to see how they mutate , but even if this is finally study , do n’t expect cosmonaut to be getting gamey on the resulting plant .
