Astronautrix arrested for kidnap and battery

[DesertFox]

A NASA astronaut is charged with attacking her rival for another astronaut's attention early Monday at Orlando International Airport, the Orlando Sentinel has learned.

Lisa Marie Nowak drove from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the male astronaut Nowak pined for, according to Orlando police.

http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/photo/2007-02/27756215.jpg

Nowak -- who was a mission specialist on a Discovery launch last summer -- was wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, rubber tubing and plastic bags, reports show. Once U.S. Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman arrived, Nowak followed her to the airport's Blue Lot for long-term parking, tried to get into Shipman's car and doused her with pepper spray, according to reports.

More (http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-bk-nasaastronaut0507feb05,0,6104316.story?coll=orl-home-headlines)

[DesertFox]

Beware Polish redheads.

[Lubbock]

An Astronautrix, hum?

A wack-job.

I thought those people had to go through extensive psychological testing in order to determine if they were well balanced enough to withstand the rigors of training and being launced into space.

[Patriot Heart]

Lovely. A lunatic would have been helping run millions (billions) of $$ of machinery in space.......

[DeclinetoState]

Snap out of it, PH. We had a lunatic (actually, a pair of them) running this country in the 1990s.

[Un Con Troll Able]

By MIKE SCHNEIDER, Associated Press Writer 1 hour, 39 minutes ago


ORLANDO, Fla. - An astronaut drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot, police said. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts.

U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail and is scheduled to make a court appearance Tuesday.
Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman.

Nowak believed Shipman was romantically involved with Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a pilot during space shuttle Discovery's trip to the space station last December, police said.

Nowak told police that her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a working relationship but less than a romantic relationship," according to an arrest affidavit. Police officers recovered a love letter to Oefelein in her car.



Read the whole story, folks. This is beyond bizarre.

The rest...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070206/ap_on_re_us/astronaut_arrested_16

[DesertFox]

http://www.freeconservatives.com/vb/showthread.php?t=44205

[Lubbock]

AstroNUT.

Depends?

You know the people at NASA have to be running around in circles, tearing their hair out by the roots.

[DesertFox]

This broad's nuts, alright. A Navy captain = an Army colonel. That's one helluva good retirement to throw away over a pair a pants.

[Un Con Troll Able]

A Navy Captain and an Air Force Captain...didn't realize they were both officers.

[DesertFox]

But a Navy Captain's an O-6. An Air Farce Captain's an O-3.

[Un Con Troll Able]

Uh...yeah...as retired Air Force, I knew that.

[Un Con Troll Able]

She has now been charged with attempted murder and denied bail. From the list of items she had with her, it looks like the O-6 intended to, literally, chop up the O-3 and put her into garbage bags.

I saw a few strange things involving officers during my career, but you'd have to go back to (Captain) Jeffrey MacDonald to find something like this.

[HomeschoolrsRUs]

I saw a few strange things involving officers during my career, but you'd have to go back to (Captain) Jeffrey MacDonald to find something like this.

Wasn't he cleared?

[Irish Mom]

This will turn into a great Sunday Night movie! It is without a dout the strangest, most bizarre thing I've read in a long time!

I feel so sorry for her husband and kids though . . she left them a hell of alot of baggage to carry for the rest of their lives.

[DeclinetoState]

I wouldn't be surprised if it gets on Lifetime first.

[Lubbock]

The last I heard, McDonald was still behind bars in California, and all of his appeals had been exhausted.

Anybody know anything for sure to the contrary?

[Patriot Heart]

She is a complete wackjob. Glenn Beck did the story today, she actually wore adult diapers so that she could drive straight through (guess she had a BIG gas tank) and make it in time for the arrival of her arch rival at an airport.

[DeclinetoState]

The last I heard, McDonald was still behind bars in California, and all of his appeals had been exhausted.

Anybody know anything for sure to the contrary?The MacDonald Case. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_R._MacDonald)

[Air-Warrior]

An Astronautrix, hum?

A wack-job.

I thought those people had to go through extensive psychological testing in order to determine if they were well balanced enough to withstand the rigors of training and being launced into space.You can bet your bottom dollar that some heads are rolling in the doctor's office at NASA. The military has gotten so that they go off the deep end to make sure that such embarrassments never happen again. Putting a senior doctor's (or two, or ten) head on a stick has been known to get peoples' attention.

[Patriot Heart]

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[Kathy30]

She's out on bail. Mostly because the judge couldn't figure out what she did wrong.

She planned to do something. She obviously prepared to do something. But never did it. She didn't douse anyone with pepper spray. She sprayed pepper spray and a small amount got through a crack in the window of the victim who drove off. Releasing pepper spray may be a misdemeanor.

[Air-Warrior]

She has now been charged with attempted murder and denied bail. From the list of items she had with her, it looks like the O-6 intended to, literally, chop up the O-3 and put her into garbage bags.

I saw a few strange things involving officers during my career, but you'd have to go back to (Captain) Jeffrey MacDonald to find something like this.
No. I think Captain Craig Button going AWOL, joyriding an A-10 then flying it into the side of a mountain in Colorado was extremely bizarre for more reasons than I can go into. I was part of the '97 DMAFB base team investigation of that one.

http://visionandpsychosis.net/Captain_Button_A10_Crash.htm

There's more to the story than you see at this website but I'll just have to leave it to imaginations and conspiracy theorists.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9D02E3DD1F3CF936A15751C1A96E958260

[Un Con Troll Able]

No. I think Captain Craig Button going AWOL, joyriding an A-10 then flying it into the side of a mountain in Colorado was extremely bizarre for more reasons than I can go into. I was part of the '97 DMAFB base team investigation of that one.


Well, I don't equate a protracted suicide with a premeditated attempted murder. And having an O-3 do it is one thing...but an O-6? That's unprecedented (as far as I know).

By the way, regarding Button's incident, I served with Lt General Frank "Ted" Campbell (now retired) at my first assignment -- we were at the Triple Nickel together when he was a Major.

[Lubbock]

This whole thing started out funny. Odd. Quirky.

Something is seriously wrong with that woman, and I don't think there's anything funny about it.

Something caused an otherwise squared-away woman to run off the rails, and I'd like to know what. It's obviously deeper than just a school-girl crush on a co-worker.

[DesertFox]

She was nutso all along but held it in check. I'm regularly surprised at how effective the structure of military life is at keeping some strange birds within bounds.

[Rhino]

Something is seriously wrong with that woman, and I don't think there's anything funny about it.Yeah, but it does give me some good ammunition to raz a few officers I know. :evilgrin:

[Pennville_Bill]

From space lady to space case..........

[Rhino]

Former Astronaut Lisa Nowak Testifies in Cosmic Love Triangle Assault Case
Friday, August 24, 2007

A detective who interviewed a former U.S. astronaut caught in a bizarre love triangle testified Friday about the discovery of her dirty diapers as the woman faced her romantic rival in a Florida courtroom for the first time.

Lisa Nowak, a former U.S. astronaut, and Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, the woman she is accused of attacking, both testified at a hearing about the suppression of evidence and the possible removal of Nowak's GPS ankle monitoring bracelet.

Nowak has pleaded not guilty to charges of attempted kidnapping, battery and burglary with assault in connection with the Feb. 5 incident.

Det. William C. Becton, an Orlando police officer, testified that in Nowak's BMW he found maps, a sleeping bag, baby diapers, empty packages for a knife and pepper spray, as well as a garbage bag containing three dirty adult diapers.

"She said that she used the diapers in order to pee so she didn't have to make as many stops," he told the judge.

Becton interviewed Nowak after her arrest and said it was the toughest of his career. "I felt like I was playing a game of chess," he said.

He testified that he informed Nowak of her rights. He said she never asked for an attorney but did ask him four times if he thought she needed one.

"She was very calculating and methodical in the manner and the way she would answer my questions," Becton said "There were times where part of the interview she would actually use information that she had as a bargaining chip."...http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,294391,00.html