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Shuttle Pilot: Nowak Showed No Emotion
AP ^ | March 6, 2007 | MIKE SCHNEIDER

Posted on 03/06/2007 1:50:58 PM PST by Palladin

ORLANDO, Fla. - The space shuttle pilot at the center of a bizarre love triangle that now has astronaut Lisa Nowak facing attempted kidnapping charges told detectives Nowak "seemed a little disappointed" but accepting when he told her he was dating another woman, court records released Tuesday show.

That conversation was in January. On Feb. 5, Nowak drove 900 miles from Houston to Orlando to confront the other woman.

Police say Nowak, a mother of three, donned a wig and followed Colleen Shipman from an airport terminal to her car to confront her, then pepper sprayed her through a cracked window when Shipman wouldn't unlock the door. Police who arrested Nowak and searched her car reported finding a BB-gun, new steel mallet, knife and rubber tubing.

Nowak, 43, pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping and burglary with assault and was released on bond with an ankle monitoring device.

Investigation documents released late Monday and Tuesday by the Orange-Osceola State Attorney's Office discuss shed some light on the astronauts' relationships.

They include the shuttle pilot, Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein's, conversations with detectives about the romantic relationship he had had with Nowak since 2004 and how she reacted with no emotion when he said he was dating another woman.

"She seemed a little disappointed, but she seemed to be accepting of that," Oefelein told detectives, according to the documents.

The documents also include an undated letter to Oefelein's mother in which Nowak wrote that she was taking steps to divorce her husband so she could be with Oefelein.

"Bill is absolutely the best person I've ever known and I love him more than I knew possible," Nowak wrote.

A NASA spokesman didn't immediately return a call seeking comment Tuesday.

Since her arrest, Nowak, has told police that her relationship with Oefelein was more than a working relationship but less than a romantic one. But Oefelein, 41, told investigators they had been romantically involved since 2004.

Nowak's frantic road trip to confront Shipman _ she wore adult diapers to avoid having to stop for breaks _ may have been sparked after she uncovered steamy e-mails Shipman sent to Oefelein, including one he received during his mission aboard the shuttle Discovery in December, according to documents released Monday. The e-mails do not mention Nowak.

"First urge will be to rip your clothes off," Shipman wrote to Oefelein. "But honestly, love, I want you to totally and thoroughly enjoy your hero's homecoming."


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: adultery; astronaut; astronauts; astronut; nasa; nowak; oefelein
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Oh, those astronauts! Definitely spacy.
1 posted on 03/06/2007 1:51:01 PM PST by Palladin
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To: Palladin
told detectives Nowak "seemed a little disappointed" but accepting when he told her he was dating another woman

Just like Mount St. Helens before it erupted.

2 posted on 03/06/2007 1:52:09 PM PST by ElkGroveDan (When toilet paper is a luxury, you have achieved communism.)
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To: Palladin

"Nowak "seemed a little disappointed"

Yet again, another man fails to understand women.


3 posted on 03/06/2007 1:53:22 PM PST by edcoil (Reality doesn't say much - doesn't need too)
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"Who's that floating out there in space, banging on the shuttle door?"
"It's Mr. Roper! Quick, act gay!"
4 posted on 03/06/2007 1:53:40 PM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Palladin

Yup, they seem a little out there.....


5 posted on 03/06/2007 1:56:14 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: Palladin

He needed that space robot, "Danger Will Ronbinson, woman on hormones about to attack"!


6 posted on 03/06/2007 1:56:38 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: Palladin

Considering both Nowak and Oefelein are naval officers, couldn't they both be indicted for adultry if they had an affair since Nowak is still married?


7 posted on 03/06/2007 1:57:15 PM PST by Paleo Conservative
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To: Palladin

They were "romantically involved since 2004" and he thought she was just a "little disappointed" when he told her that he was seeing someone else???
What planet is this astronaut on??


8 posted on 03/06/2007 1:57:29 PM PST by nuconvert ([there are bad people in the pistachio business] (...but his head is so tiny...))
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"First urge will be to rip your clothes off," Shipman wrote to Oefelein.

Yeek. No accounting for taste.

9 posted on 03/06/2007 1:57:54 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies must follow approved guidelines or you will be kill-filed without appeal.)
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Yet again, another man fails to understand women.

You say that like it's a rare occurance.

10 posted on 03/06/2007 1:58:31 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Palladin

It's a minor point but i think she's a mission specialist, not a pilot.


11 posted on 03/06/2007 1:59:43 PM PST by saganite
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To: edcoil
"Nowak "seemed a little disappointed"

"Yet again, another man fails to understand women."

What is it about "My way or the pepper spray that you don't understand"? ;-)

12 posted on 03/06/2007 2:01:03 PM PST by GourmetDan
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I think they were referring to Oeffelein there.


13 posted on 03/06/2007 2:01:39 PM PST by Palladin (Rudy will beat Hillary in 2008.)
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Astronut. The Grim Leaker...

This is just too much fun.


14 posted on 03/06/2007 2:02:02 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Palladin
"Nowak "seemed a little disappointed"

Ya think?

15 posted on 03/06/2007 2:02:38 PM PST by highlander_UW (I don't know what my future holds, but I know Who holds my future)
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To: saganite
It's a minor point but i think she's a mission specialist, not a pilot.

'Shuttle Pilot' in the title referred to Oefelein, the man in the triangle, who is indeed a shuttle pilot.

16 posted on 03/06/2007 2:02:46 PM PST by Yossarian (Everyday, somewhere on the globe, somebody is pushing the frontier of stupidity...)
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To: atomicpossum

Hypoxia. The flight surgeon needs to check out Shipman.


17 posted on 03/06/2007 2:03:05 PM PST by Dead Dog
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To: Palladin
She has to take responsibility for her actions, but this guy's definitely a first class creep. In another post it came out that while he was banging his new gal he was still "dating" Nowak but lying about it.
18 posted on 03/06/2007 2:03:52 PM PST by colorado tanker
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To: GourmetDan

I wondered how Nowak got to read Oeffelein's personal email.

Now it can be told...she kept the key to his apartment after they broke up. She used it to get in and read those hot emails from Shipman. Guess that's what drove her nutz!!!


19 posted on 03/06/2007 2:03:52 PM PST by Palladin (Rudy will beat Hillary in 2008.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
This guy is a POS. I personally think any guy that would start an affair with a woman that will destroy a family with kids ought to be horse whipped. But that is just me.
20 posted on 03/06/2007 2:05:09 PM PST by MPJackal ("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
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