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Some OPs mentioned Oefelein being on leave from JSC, but I had only seen that he was in FL briefly to help out with the investigation. Now there's confirmation that he took a leave to be with Shipman there ...

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4539394.html

" ... Astronaut Bill Oefelein has taken leave from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston to join girlfriend Colleen Shipman in Florida following the alleged attack on her by astronaut Lisa Nowak, a space agency official said Thursday.

In fact, Oefelein asked for the time off Monday after Shipman, an Air Force captain stationed at Cape Canaveral, told him about the early morning confrontation with Nowak at Orlando International Airport.

Oefelein quickly reported the incident to chief astronaut Steve Lindsey, putting NASA on alert about the events that have led to charges of attempted murder against Nowak, NASA official Ellen Ochoa told reporters Thursday.
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Ochoa, whose duties as director of NASA flight crew operations include supervision of the agency's 135 astronauts, confirmed Thursday that there is a romantic link between Oefelein, 41, and Shipman, 30.

Oefelein, a divorced Navy commander, was granted leave to spend a week with Shipman, an Air Force captain, Ochoa said. He and Shipman have not spoken publicly about the attack
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Ochoa characterized Shipman as the shuttle pilot's girlfriend, but would not discuss the nature of the relationship between Oefelein and Nowak ... "

"Yes, we have a number of alligator-infested areas, but not as many close to JSC as more to the west."

I don't know about "not as many." My sister-in-law used to take her kids to picnic down by the bayou near University of Houston-Clear Lake. She stopped going there after watching a "log" open up and swallow the trailing duck in a bunch of them swimming past.

The gator was at least six feet long, as the mallard was a one-chomp tidbit. Melted in the gator's mouth. Not even a feather escaped.

There is also Armand Bayou in the area. Gators in that, too.