NASA’s brilliant psychotic astronaut plan
You have to give NASA credit for thinking everything through. Even what to do if an astronaut has a breakdown in space (as opposed to, say, Florida). NASA’s plan is ingenuously simple: the crazed astronaut is to be bound, hand and foot, with duct tape, tied up to a wall, and injected with tranquilizers (that is, the astronaut cannot be coerced into swallowing tranquilizers in tablet form).
I know a lot of people are making fun of NASA for this, but they really shouldn’t be. This is the optimal solution. They already have tape on space shuttles and the International Space Station for other reasons. Using what’s already there is better than carrying handcuffs, which weigh more and aren’t useful for anything else. It’s comforting to know that NASA has a contingency plan for pretty much everything.
