Computer for Space Station Sabotaged

Via LA Times -

A computer scheduled to be delivered to the International Space Station next month was sabotaged, possibly by a worker at a Texas subcontractor's plant, although NASA officials said Thursday that the damage would have posed no danger to the station.

Several wires were cut inside the briefcase-sized unit and two identical devices, said Edmund Memi, a spokesman for Boeing Co., the main contractor for the space station.

The news came just hours after the trade magazine Aviation Week & Space Technology reported that a NASA panel had found that drunk astronauts were allowed to fly on two occasions even though doctors warned they could pose a safety risk.