[HAL9000]

She needs to take a stress pill and think things over.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

"Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three."

You can be good at one or the other, but not both.

[xcamel]

Pressure will get you - one way or another.

[DainBramage]

After traveling to space can she claim she wanted to murder because of Post dePartum Depression?

[oldbrowser]

Lisa Nowak chose a juggling act of dauntingly high difficulty: to be an astronaut and a mother of three.

Where is her husband in all of this?

[glennshepard]

Moral of the story: if you're a zoomie at the Air Force Academy, don't mess with USNA! j/k

[wizecrakker]

So when is she checking into rehab?

[BigFinn]

Too many twinkies.

[SteveMcKing]

NASA will put a positive spin on the incident, as a "learning experience" in human behavior.

In fact, if Dan Goldin were still in charge- Nowak would be commanding the very next shuttle flight.

[jwalsh07]

Whole bunch of conduct unbecoming an officer going around NASA.

[Mr_Moonlight]

This story is just so sad.

An Astronaut, who we always thought of as possessing the utmost of high caliber character (The Right Stuff), turns out to have human failings and jealousies just like everybody else. Sad only because it blows apart the myth

[JaguarXKE]

She needs to take a stress pill and think things over.

I'm no psychiatrist, but I do teach a class for families with loved ones suffering with brain disorders. If I was going to hazard an educated guess I'd say the poor woman suffered a Psychotic break, possibly as a prelude to or onset of Schizophrenia. Brain disorders can affect anyone and at any time of life. My aunt on my mother’s side was similarly her HS class valedictorian and graduated with honors from college. Two years later she suffered a breakdown and spent the rest of her life in and out of institutions. If that is what happened to this woman, while she needs to be accountable, she will also need help. Jag

[SkyPilot]

"She was the epitome of managing a very hectic career, making sacrifices to accommodate her family," Clark said in a telephone interview. "All those stresses can conspire to be overwhelming. ... Clearly she suffered a lot of mental anguish.

You know, I really feel bad for her, but this analysis in print makes me want to scream:

"Join the club."

A lot of people have 'mental anguish' - they don't commit criminal acts or assault innocent people in what was clearly a calculated and cold manner.

I was an aeronautical engineer, Air Force pilot, father of three, etc, etc. On top of that, I was gone 200+ days a year sometimes. It was damn stressful. But that would never excuse terrible behavior.

The whole tone of this article sounds like an article from Cosmopolitan or a script for an Oprah episode.

There are a lot of American Heroes out there who never get the adulation this woman received. Single mothers who work two jobs (I know a few) are heroes. Police officers who put up with the worst of society and yet give every ounce of love to their children when they get home. And yes, our current service men and women who are at half the strength as during the Cold War, yet are 10 times as busy (that is a fact just acknowledged by the current Air Force Chief of Staff Gen Mosely).

I remember flying, coming home to another job at the base I had to do on top of that, men and women under my command who had a myriad of problems I myself had to help them deal with, study for more schooling or aircraft upgrades, and then nurse a sick child and help run a busy household by cleaning, cooking, doing laundry, and helping with schoolwork. Millions of Americans pour their heart and soul into their lives each day in a similar fashion.

How many of them go off and pepper spray an innocent woman?

I pity this Navy 0-6 astronaut, but I won't suffer pyschobabble excuses made for her.

[Boiler Plate]

This gal went to High School with Dan Snyder the owner of the Washington Redskins. Maybe he can hire her to scare the opposing teams

[Moonman62]

She needs to take a stress pill and think things over.

LOL! How long have you been waiting to use that line?

[rface]

I must say that I hate seeing any person go through this kind of turmoil.

Everybody needs to be loved and to give love....Astronauts and Garbage men

[cavador]

The story emerged in Australia is that she travelled 1200km non stop wearing incontinent nappies so that she wouldn't have to take a pee break in order to kill the other woman. How crazy is that?

[BigCinBigD]

There seems to be Three types of space involved here. The space up there. The space down here. And the space between her ears.

[Intolerant in NJ]

NASA, at a loss to explain what went wrong, said it would revamp its psychological screening process in light of Nowak's arrest...she reportedly performed in a highly efficient manner, better than some had expected in fact, during her one trip into space - sounds as though the screening process for astronauts worked well in her case.........

[no dems]

She will really find out what mental anguish is when she shares a prison cell with Bertha Diesel Dyke.

[woofie]

she dropped the ball