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.

[fso301]

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.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

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.

[I Drive Too Fast]

Houston, she has a problem.

[org.whodat]

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

[VRWCtaz]

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

[M-cubed]

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

[presently no screen name]

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

[Rte66]

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

[tlb]

Very astronaughty

[higgmeister]

They both circle around

Orbit

[Rte66]

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

[Rte66]

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.

[Rte66]

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

[Rte66]

If the diapers didn't work.

[burzum]

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.

[ccmay]

Cute geek girl. I wonder if she was the first to do the nasty while in orbit?

-ccm

[jwparkerjr]

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.

[Rte66]

Auntie Maim, the Space Cadet Middy Cadet

[A. Pole]

Hmm

[fso301]

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.