NASA worker sabotaged Space Station computer

NASA investigators are scratching their heads over why one of its workers sabotaged the computer bound for the International Space Station.

The worker deliberately cut wires on a computer before the kit could be sent into space. Fortunately the damage was spotted and the computer fixed. It will be flown into space on August 7.

In the good old days of the cold war NASA could have blamed Russian spies, but these days the Russians need the computer up there as much as the Americans do.

The space agency says the damaged computer posed no danger to the astronauts, but with its wires cut it was not going to be much use to them either.

It has been a bad week for NASA. Aviation Week and Space Technology has revealed that NASA astronauts have been allowed to fly while drunk as a skunk.

Doctors discovered the half-cut astronauts on two occasions, but the flights were allowed to continue. If they do get this computer in orbit we guess the drunken astronauts will be online attempting to order a curry.

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