Show host T.J. Miller wears a spacesuit as he poses backstage at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in Santa Monica, California January 17, 2016. REUTERS/Danny Moloshok NASA has a strict no alcohol policy for its astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

But it wasn't always that way.

From Russian cognac to American beer, a surprising amount of alcohol has traveled into microgravity.

Keep scrolling for a brief history of alcohol in space, and why it's still being launched to the ISS even though no astronauts are drinking it.