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It’s a bad day for NASA.

First you have the drunk astronauts.

At least twice, astronauts were allowed to fly after flight surgeons and other astronauts warned they were so drunk they posed a flight-safety risk, an aviation weekly reported Thursday, citing a special panel studying astronaut health.

The independent panel also found “heavy use of alcohol” before launch that was within the standard 12-hour “bottle-to-throttle” rule, according to Aviation Week & Space Technology, which reported the finding on its Web site.

Then, you have the saboteurs.

A computer due to be installed on the US space shuttle Endeavour for an August mission was found to be sabotaged, the US space agency NASA said on Thursday.

“One of our subcontractors noticed that a network box for the shuttle had appeared to be tampered with,” NASA spokeswoman Katherine Trinidad told AFP. “It is intentional damage to hardware.”

Apparently, Kennedy Space Center is doubles as a set for “The Venture Brothers.” All that’s missing is a costumed arch-villain.