The ISS isn't just a space station, it's an orbiting pharmacy. Mir had a reputation as a great bar to chill in, so long as you like vodka. Buzz Aldrin (before he punched a moon hoaxer in the face for calling him a liar) got tipsy drinking communion wine on our largest natural satellite. What other drugs are kept in zero g? I invite you to come read the Sunday installment of Weekend Science.
The focus on this is a little weird, so let me explain it. Once upon a time, an Astronaut named Lisa Nowak snapped. Luckily she was on earth at the time. NASA, looking at the incident, developed contingency plans for what to happen if someone went wearing-a-diaper-while-she-drove-cross-country-to-kill-her-fellow-astronaut-lover crazy in space. The plans were published everywhere at the time. Fox had this:
What would happen if an astronaut came unglued in space and, say, destroyed the ship's oxygen system or tried to open the hatch and kill everyone aboard?
That was the question on some minds after the apparent breakdown of Lisa Nowak, arrested in Orlando this month on charges she tried to kidnap and kill a woman she regarded as her rival for another astronaut's affections.
It turns out NASA has a detailed set of written procedures for dealing with a suicidal or psychotic astronaut in space. The documents, obtained this week by The Associated Press, say the astronaut's crewmates should bind his wrists and ankles with duct tape, tie him down with a bungee cord and inject him with tranquilizers if necessary.
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Discovery News noted the line about the tranquilizers and started thinking 'That would mean they had that drug up there in space'. One thing led to another and it developed into a rather compelling feature now.
Among the hits on the list:
Scopolamine: In order to avoid blasting forth some low-gravity vomit, astronauts sometimes turn to ScopeDex, a speedy cocktail of Scopolamine and Dexedrine to combat nausea. According to Xeni Jardin at BoingBoing, good old Scopolamine is also known as "devil's breath" in Columbia, where criminals use it to turn unsuspecting victims into temporary zombie slaves. The CIA even experimented with the stuff as a truth serum in the ‘60s. Perhaps the lesson here is to use zombie mind-control drugs responsibly while in orbit.
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Modafinil: You may know it as Provigil, Alertec, Vigicer or Modalert, but astronauts know it as the upper they take when sleep isn't an option. The Good Drug Guide describes it as "a memory-improving and mood-brightening psychostimulant" that "enhances wakefulness, attention capacity and vigilance."
And these are just the drugs the astronauts take. PharmaSat is orbiting the earth with drugs on board looking at the effect space has on them. Spacehab is building investment for the manufacture of drugs in space (proteins grow in some special ways in zero gravity).