Space shuttle astronaut arrested at OIA on attempted kidnapping, battery charges

Orlando Sentinel ^ | February 5, 2007 | Henry Pierson Curtis

[burzum]

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.

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.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Come on now, let's try to separate fantasy from reality.

[NathanR]

There is a book out there called "Faces of Meth". It shows booking pictures of the same meth addicts over time.She looks about one third of the way down that path.

[org.whodat]

Just cracked up I guess.

No. she assumed the crack up position.

[RobRoy]

Her hair is prettier in the other picture. Is this one of those "before and after" makeover things?

[nascarnation]

keepin it warm...........

[tet68]

Oh honey, a new steel mallet and a box of depends, just what I've always wanted.

I'm an uncureable romantic.

[Thebaddog]

Are you sure that that is the same astro-bikerchick-crackho?

[RobRoy]

Kinda makes you wonder if during the missions some of them were emulating the last scene in Moonraker?

[sport]

That has meth junkie all over it. If she took out an ad in the nespaper saying, "I'm a meth junkie", it could be more obvious.

[Lurking in Kansas]

And what is that in your trench coat, sweetie??

[RobRoy]

>>her interests include running, playing the piano and collecting African violets<<

Yeah, I used to read that sort of stuff in Playboy, back in the day...

[bannie]

Whoa. A woman driven.

[org.whodat]

I had a buddy

And what branch of service did you serve in?

[buccaneer81]

Kinda makes you wonder if during the missions some of them were emulating the last scene in Moonraker?

Attempting reentry?

[FReepaholic]

They both circle Uranus looking for Klingons.

Now, here's one for you:

What did Spock find in the bathroom on the bridge of the Starship Enterprise?

[Lurking in Kansas]

I bet the nights got coooooooold up there.

[RobRoy]

"I've been to two picnics and a state fair, and that is the stupidest thing I ever heard over a headset.".

[mikrofon]

It's Space ... MADNESS!

[The KG9 Kid]

Oh great. A married female astronaut obsessed with memories of a romantic affair she had with a male colleague (who was incidentally crewmember on one of her space flights) goes after a younger woman scheduled to fly into space with the same object of her affections.

This tells me that astronauts Lisa Nowak and Willian Oefelein must have had a sexual encounter in space together.

I think someone at NASA needs to call astronaut William Oefelein into the director's office.

[Fitzcarraldo]

I think the astronaut corps has been under stress ever since its inception. Some can take it, some can't. Wife with three children and astronaut - that would drive a normal person nuts. Give her a break, it's probably her time to leave.