Posted on 02/06/2007 6:34:02 AM PST by XR7
A NASA astronaut faces her first appearance before a judge this morning after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut's attention at Orlando International Airport Monday.
Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the astronaut Nowak pined for, according to Orlando police. She is being held on no bond at Orange County Jail and has a court appearance at 9 a.m.
Nowak -- who was a mission specialist on a Space Shuttle Discovery flight last summer -- was wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, and latex gloves in her car, reports show. They also found diapers, which Nowak said she used so she wouldn't have to stop on the 1,000-mile drive. Reports show that after U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman's flight arrived, Nowak followed her to the airport's Blue Lot for long-term parking, tried to get into Shipman's car and then doused her with pepper spray.
Nowak, 43, is charged with attempted kidnapping, battery, attempted vehicle burglary with battery and destruction of evidence. Police considered her such a danger that they requested she be held without bail in the Orange County Jail, reports show.
A married mother of three, Nowak told police that she was "involved in a relationship with," Bill Oefelein, another NASA astronaut...
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What happened to the other twenty threads on this story?
And already posted at least three times.
Not everyone can grow up to be an astronaut.
"I was unaware that they were recruiting trailer trash for spaceflight until I read this series of articles."
She sounds like the elite left wing former trail trash we have an over abundance of.
Sounds like the makings of a good TV series -- "Desperate Astronauts".
That is just 'astronomical' to think she works in space.
My first thought was that NASA used to have such strict recruiting. Physical and psychological testing. Now this. This must be an indication of the decline of our space program.
"The Wrong Stuff"
At least the 12th post of this
Seems as if part of her is still in outer space.
I guess she didn't have "the Right Stuff"...........
I guess she has a car that will go that far without gas. What's that song playing? The Things we do for Love......the things
Life imitates art.
Didn't Monk (USA channel) bust an astronaut for murder while he was on a space mission just a coupla days ago?
We've told you a million times, don't exaggerate!
Some mod on meth locked this thread earlier, claiming it was not front page news!
Twenty? I must have missed three.
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