Only if I can include other various phallic shaped objects in the contest.

This implies that catching fire is easy while in orbit with minimal, if any, atmosphere.

Interesting take.

Perhaps the store was out of 12-packs.

Also at that time, in like early 90's (in the tv show), I don't think 12-pack was that common

I didn't know this was a thing. tyvm.

Assuming 12oz beers at 5% ABV, that you're a man at the global average weight of 180lbs, and have a healthy liver, if you paced yourself to 1 beer every 1.5 hours over the course of your 16 waking hours per day, your BAC would never exceed 0.02, you'd have 5-10 minutes between beers with a BAC of 0, and you'd drink about 12 beers in a day.

Most people would not be noticeably intoxicated by this and probably wouldn't experience any kind of hangover. They might wind up a bit dehydrated if that's the only thing they drink. It's also definitely not advisable to do that over any extended period of time.

We must have more!

You are very welcome!

A round of drinks @ tenforward in celebration for our new friend!!

And a lighter.

What happens if one were to fall...

No...?

A bottle in germany is 0.5liters, in italy it's quite 50/50 between 0.33 and 0.66 liters.

In Hungary and Croatia for example

Well then someones got some cleaning to do.

It's not that hard. You just have to lose a little bit of speed, enough for re-entry, and there's your fire.

This is for stuff going on a literal space ship. I'm sure procurement was super strict on there.

Imagine getting some defective stuff (or even worse, stuff contaminated with bacteria or something like that).

I don't think they'd just let some intern tun over to the local walmart and grab supplies from there for supplies for the space shuttle.

Tbh, the story was reported by Ride on a talk show for laughs. It's not exactly a well-documented incidence.

Likely, the package they ordered had 100pcs in them (because it's meant for commercial clients) and they asked her something like "We got 100 here, how many do you need?"

It's of course fun to insinuate that NASA engineers have never been close to women and thus have no idea how tampons work, but it's more likely that this was just played up for laughs at a talk show.

@[email protected] , when it was valid!

I suspect the strictness isn't with the procurement process where a contracting officer defines very specific criteria in compliance with acquisition regulations and submits the process to competitive bids. The strictness is in the mission parameters where NASA's ownership of the thing has already been established, but the NASA employees in a strict hierarchical decisionmaking process need to justify why a thing that NASA already owns should be included in the packing list on a mission.

Yeah this is the actual solution. With that said, I would be fucking stoked if I showed up to a friends house and they showered me with 100 beers.

In the end, same result. I guess it would be much harder to get a pack of stuff from Walmart onto a mission than something from a certified supplier who has a datasheet and certifications for the item. And having to order 100pcs of a very cheap product even though less would have sufficed isn't a good reason to instead have to certify tampons of unknown origin manually.

Just launching the space shuttle costed $24mio per flight (in 1977 money), so saving a dollar or two by buying fewer tampons was clearly not a priority.

355mL is 12 fl oz in Freedom Units, and is the most common soda/beer size in the US. Red Bull and other such energy drinks tend to come in a smaller form factor, oddly enough.