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Astronaut Fired From NASA
AP via SFGate ^ | 3/7/7 | MIKE SCHNEIDER

Posted on 03/07/2007 12:58:29 PM PST by SmithL

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To: Abigail Adams
Yeah, all of us women suddenly look like crap when we reach that age. (Phhhhbbtt!) ;-)

I realized it might be taken that way just after I hit Post. Sorry about that, no offense intended.

41 posted on 03/07/2007 1:39:08 PM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: Calvin Locke

If that's the case then they should fire the other moonbat Shipman. Anybody that puts that kind of drivel in NASA e-mails is not working with a full deck.


42 posted on 03/07/2007 1:42:34 PM PST by tom paine 2
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To: antiRepublicrat

I hope I still look good at 70!


43 posted on 03/07/2007 1:44:03 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: Abigail Adams

...that's 30 years from now.


44 posted on 03/07/2007 1:44:33 PM PST by Abigail Adams
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To: SevenofNine

45 posted on 03/07/2007 1:45:49 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: antiRepublicrat

40 is young!


46 posted on 03/07/2007 1:50:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
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To: monkapotamus

I got question Monk do they have frantiztein rules in NASA that what I thinking right now


47 posted on 03/07/2007 1:50:54 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: monkapotamus

I got question Monk do they have frantiztein rules in NASA that what I thinking right now


48 posted on 03/07/2007 1:51:01 PM PST by SevenofNine ("We are Freepers, all your media belong to us, resistence is futile")
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To: Abigail Adams
What's the Navy going to do with her?

Nothing, probably. She's facing charges in a civilian criminal court. They can handle it. If she's convicted she'll probably retire and save her pension.

49 posted on 03/07/2007 1:53:48 PM PST by Non-Sequitur (Save Fredericksburg. Support CVBT.)
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To: Palladin

Nolte should have gone to the gallows for Cape Fear.


50 posted on 03/07/2007 1:53:55 PM PST by Minn
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To: Abigail Adams

Let her service the fleet.


51 posted on 03/07/2007 1:56:22 PM PST by Palladin (Rudy will beat Hillary in 2008.)
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To: Minn

Aside from his personal life, he's a terrible actor.


52 posted on 03/07/2007 1:57:11 PM PST by Palladin (Rudy will beat Hillary in 2008.)
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To: SevenofNine
http://www.space.com/news/070206_nowak_fratern.html

...NASA’s behavioral guidelines align with standard government rules. Active U.S. military personnel, meanwhile, are subject to the Uniform Military Code of Justice, which governs fraternization, conduct unbecoming an officer, and other regulations.

“They are both Naval officers and we have to defer to the Navy on what their code of conduct is,” Beutel said. “That’s slightly different than say a typical civil servant.”

NASA has specific codes of astronaut conduct for spaceflyers living and working aboard the International Space Station (ISS), but on Earth the agency’s reach is purposely limited to their professional activities.

“There are rules as far as being government employees, but NASA doesn’t monitor or restrict the private lives of employees,” NASA spokesperson Kylie Clem, of the agency’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, told SPACE.com, adding that the guidelines are currently expected to remain unchanged.

Private fraternization among astronauts is not prohibited, NASA officials said.

“Astronauts dated each other, astronaut married each other, there has been a married couple that flew on the same shuttle mission,” said astronaut biographer Michael Cassutt, referring to the 1992 flight of then-married astronauts Mark Lee and Jan Davis aboard Endeavour during NASA’s STS-47 mission. “The guidelines are unspoken, or if they're spoken they’re general. They’re grown ups, and you’re expected to behave like grown ups.”

“They are both Naval officers and we have to defer to the Navy on what their code of conduct is,” Beutel said. “That’s slightly different than say a typical civil servant.”

Some Navy officials believe any additional charges for Nowak beyond the current civil allegations would likely await the outcome of the civil proceedings, one U.S. Navy official said....

53 posted on 03/07/2007 1:57:47 PM PST by monkapotamus
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To: SmithL
"Hello today from the cockpit, we are pleased that you're flying with us today.

I am Captain Lisa Nowak and I will be flying you all to your destination.

So just sit back and relax..."

54 posted on 03/07/2007 1:58:53 PM PST by nctexan (Top 10 Presidential Reqs. for 2008 - see my homepage)
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To: SevenofNine
frantiztein

Eh?

55 posted on 03/07/2007 2:02:23 PM PST by You Dirty Rats (I Love Free Republic!)
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To: BenLurkin
"40 is young!

Especially if you're fifty-one.

56 posted on 03/07/2007 2:03:43 PM PST by StormEye
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To: tom paine 2
AFAIC, all three should be booted, and let their respective branches deal with them as appropriate.

They all had a hand in disrupting NASA as an organization.

57 posted on 03/07/2007 2:06:41 PM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: OldFriend

"I categorically deny that I was dipping into the Astro pool."

58 posted on 03/07/2007 2:10:52 PM PST by Enterprise (I can't talk about liberals anymore because some of the words will get me sent to rehab.)
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To: SmithL

Amazing what sitting in a diaper for 900 miles will do to you...


59 posted on 03/07/2007 2:11:18 PM PST by Eagle Eye (There oughta be a law against excess legislation.)
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To: SmithL

"Nowak is a naval officer on assignment to NASA"

Can you say UCMJ!


60 posted on 03/07/2007 2:11:29 PM PST by Garvin (Government by the media, for the media and of the media.)
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