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Space shuttle astronaut arrested at OIA on attempted kidnapping, battery charges
Orlando Sentinel ^ | February 5, 2007 | Henry Pierson Curtis

Posted on 02/05/2007 5:27:04 PM PST by 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.

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To: iowamark
Ms. Nowak has 5 year old twins and a 14 year old son.

Don't you know her husband is going to feel sooo proud of his wife tomorrow at the office and their kids will be real eager to go to school.

301 posted on 02/05/2007 8:33:24 PM PST by fso301
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To: VxH
Or;

She passed through the Van Fugly belt.

Stuck her face out the window on reentry.

In space, no one can hear you turn into a psycho hosebeast.
302 posted on 02/05/2007 8:33:29 PM PST by Hillarys Gate Cult (The man who said "there's no such thing as a stupid question" has never talked to Helen Thomas.)
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To: windcliff; stylecouncilor

Houston, she has a problem.


303 posted on 02/05/2007 8:34:15 PM PST by I Drive Too Fast
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To: VxH
Try staying awake 4 or more days straight. Things start getting a little strange.

If it took her four days to drive 1000 miles things would be strange.

You can put down 1000 mile in 14 hours or less

304 posted on 02/05/2007 8:36:17 PM PST by org.whodat (Never let the facts get in the way of a good assumption.)
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To: Sloth

You just made my wife come in here to find out why I was laughing so loud - thanks.


305 posted on 02/05/2007 8:36:29 PM PST by VRWCtaz ("Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness." - Thomas Paine)
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To: taxesareforever

LMAO!!!!!....Yup...watch for the lawsuit she brings...


306 posted on 02/05/2007 8:39:32 PM PST by M-cubed (Why is "Greshams Law" a law?)
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To: doug from upland

Surely she had to stop to 'change' herself and powder up.


307 posted on 02/05/2007 8:40:07 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: FreeAtlanta

I didn't hear the story until our 10PM news tonight and I did cry for her. Bless her heart, how pathetic.


308 posted on 02/05/2007 8:40:24 PM PST by Rte66
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To: burzum

Very astronaughty


309 posted on 02/05/2007 8:41:01 PM PST by tlb
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To: BRL
They both circle around

Orbit

310 posted on 02/05/2007 8:41:45 PM PST by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken [Its beak has stopped working])
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To: Names Ash Housewares

Much worse to contemplate than the recent sky-diving love triangle.


311 posted on 02/05/2007 8:41:53 PM PST by Rte66
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To: TexasTransplant

Oh, come on! They'd let crazy men in long before they'd overlook a crazy woman. The original "right stuff" guys had girl friends in addition to their wives.


312 posted on 02/05/2007 8:44:11 PM PST by Rte66
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To: gcruse

I've always stopped at all the Christmas stores on the way from Houston to Orlando, too. Took a little longer, lol.


313 posted on 02/05/2007 8:46:09 PM PST by Rte66
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To: Titan Magroyne

If the diapers didn't work.


314 posted on 02/05/2007 8:47:25 PM PST by Rte66
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To: VxH
Sleep deprivation. The article says she drove over 1000 miles prior to the incident.

Could be her circadian ryhtyms are whacked.

Try staying awake 4 or more days straight. Things start getting a little strange.

Then why did she pack the plastic bags, steel mallet, knife, tubes, BB-gun, and mace? You can explain her setting out randomly if she went briefly crazy, but stocking her car with all of those items for a 1000 mile road trip indicates that she planned it. I'm not entirely sure if this was just an attempted kidnapping. I suppose we will learn in the next several months whether she planned to kill or maim the other woman.

315 posted on 02/05/2007 8:47:48 PM PST by burzum (Despair not! I shall inspire you by charging blindly on!--Minsc, BG2)
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To: cripplecreek
Cute geek girl. I wonder if she was the first to do the nasty while in orbit?

-ccm

316 posted on 02/05/2007 8:48:23 PM PST by ccmay (Too much Law; not enough Order.)
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To: burzum
I think some of you are being too harsh and that you're not picking up on the interesting thing about his story.

This lady made trip, solo, by car from Houston to Orlando and timed it so that she would arrive in the relatively short time between the arrival of a commercial flight and one of its passengers getting to her car.

This person obviously has great skill in logistics.
317 posted on 02/05/2007 8:49:18 PM PST by jwparkerjr
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To: burzum
Auntie Maim, the Space Cadet Middy Cadet
318 posted on 02/05/2007 8:51:01 PM PST by Rte66
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Hmm


319 posted on 02/05/2007 8:54:11 PM PST by A. Pole (XIV century English rhyme: "When Adam delved and Eve span, who was the gentleman?")
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To: burzum
Then why did she pack the plastic bags, steel mallet, knife, tubes, BB-gun, and mace? You can explain her setting out randomly if she went briefly crazy, but stocking her car with all of those items for a 1000 mile road trip indicates that she planned it. I'm not entirely sure if this was just an attempted kidnapping. I suppose we will learn in the next several months whether she planned to kill or maim the other woman.

The BB-gun , mallet and knife makes me think her intent was to torture and main rather than kill. Being repeatedly shot at close range with a BB-gun is going to hurt like hell. The mallet may have been for striking joints. The knife for the fear factor and possible disfigurement.

320 posted on 02/05/2007 8:56:53 PM PST by fso301
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