I don’t know about you, but I would have to be drunk before I got on top of a rocket made by the lowest bidder (“Astronauts’ 3-Martini Launch,” July 27).

Steve Baran

Fort Pierce, Fla.

NASA has now added a new meaning to the phrase “flying high.”

Astronauts are drinking before flight time and may have been legally drunk during blastoff, according to a blue-ribbon panel that was created to look at NASA’s medical and psychological screening.

Houston, we have a problem.

Frederick R. Bedell Jr.

Bellerose

Earth to NASA: When astronauts take those space walks, do they have to walk a straight line? In retrospect, they always seemed a little shaky.

This opens up a whole new world for Lindsay Lohan, Britney Spears and Paris Hilton – should they tire of showbiz, they are already in training.

Paul T. Alexander

Staten Island