We send our astronauts into space hammered, but the Russians just got their test animals drunk before they shot them into space. There’s a weird pic of a poor little piggy being fed a bottle of booze over at BoingBoing. Yes, I’m too lazy to provide it to you here.
Gee, back in the stone age when I was a little tyke I never thought of doing something to calm the critters down when I was shooting frogs and mice up in those Estes rockets…I don’t think it would have helped much.
