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Posted on 02/05/2007 7:10:47 PM PST by NonValueAdded
Astronaut Arrested Over Love Spat
Last Edited: Monday, 05 Feb 2007, 9:47 PM EST Created: Monday, 05 Feb 2007, 7:24 PM EST
ORLANDO, FL (WOFL) -- -- U.S. Navy Commander and Discovery Astronaut, Lisa Nowak, 43, was arrested early Monday morning at Orlando International Airpot following an altercation with another woman.
Police say Nowak drove from Houston to Orlando to meet Colleen Shipman. According to reports, once Shipman arrived at the airport, Nowak followed her to a nearby lot where she had parked her car. As Shipman entered her car, Nowak approached Shipman, slapping on the window and trying to open the door. When Shipman cracked the window open, Nowak reportedly sprayed pepper spray into the car. Shipman was able to drive away and notify authorities.
Police say the two women were involved in a relationship with another male astronaut.
Nowak faces charges of attemped kidnapping, attempted burglary, destruction of evidence and battery.
Nowak's first and only mission to space was in the summer of 2006, where she served as mission specialist aboard Shuttle Discovery.
The biggest achievement of the mission was to show that a space shuttle could launch without dangerous foam shedding from its external tank during launch. It was the second shuttle launch since the Columbia disaster of 2003.
Nowak, who claims Washington, D.C. as her hometown, is married with three children. She joined the astronaut corps in 1996. She is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate who has a master's degree in aeronautical engineering, with expertise in robotics.
Another first for America's space program.
Just sad.
ping request, not the happiest one I've requested :(
She is seriously deranged.
"is married with three children"
What the hell is she doing?
I think she just washed out.
Heck of a way to end her career.
She evidently wasn't too concerned about hiding the fact that she had a "love interest" from her husband and kids.
Houston, we have a problem.
Imagine the theories the defense might invent at trial! Weightlessness-induced insanity? Cosmic-ray lobotomy of the inhibition area of the brain?
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Gives a new meaning to being "Spaced out".
one guess which party she votes for
I wonder if the husband should have the kids DNA tested.
Sadly appropriate recycle of that famous phrase.
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1779787/posts
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