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.
(Excerpt) Read more at orlandosentinel.com ...
Ever tried to break a safety glass window? It could easily take more than one blow, and the victim isn't going to just sit there while you do it.
1,092 posted on 02/06/2007 4:40:28 PM PST by gcruse
They only break easy on t.v. and in the movies.
Yeah. There but for the grace of God...
The woman was involved in a psychotic episode. She had obviously lost touch with reality. She didn't physically touch the woman so we can discount battery. She did assault the woman through a slightly opened car window with pepper spray. At no time did she grab her, pull her from the vehicle, capture her, bind her, stab her, shoot her, or physically assault her. In her mentally unstable mind she may have fantasized about killing her "rival" but her actions do not meet the test of attempted murder or kidnapping. Come to think of it, you'd probably fit right in with the local police. Talk about over-reaching! But then you're such a smart little boy!
Exactly why FR should conduct intelligence testing before they allow morons like you to invade public space!
Thank you for the link.
You must be one of the good people left that keeps it going! :)
I pointed out that this was dead wrong, along with your general theory that NASA is incompetent.
May I REPEAT this base Root Cause from the official report.
Root Cause: Failure to use metric units in the coding of a ground software file, "Small Forces" used in trajectory models Contributing Causes: ect. ect. ect.
How is this not incompetent? Try driving down the road at 110 mph and tell the officer you mixed up metric and the US System. Intentionally push a multi-billion dollar piece of equipment outside the design parameters, kill a bunch of people, after being warned about the temperature , and tell me that isn't incompetence.
The glory days of Apollo are long gone, which is a supreme shame. We can't even keep up with the Russians today, let alone make it back to the moon. The International Space Station is nearly 3 decades old, and it is a joke. We are more concerned about being PC and involving everyone (we flew the son of the Imir of Saudia Arabia as a mission specialist) without regard to qualifications. This is utter incompetence. NASA is not 1% of what is was, and as-is, NASA is nothing more than an embarassing waste of taxpayer money.
If we shut it down, waited a year or so, then fired it back up and hired the best and brightest; it would soon be what it should be. Today, we have lazy gov't employees, Unions and generally do not have the type of people we need.
Which is why, sadly, I think she'll get off with probation and separation from service. Being punished for what the perp was thinking is left to hate crimes.
She stalked the woman......over 1000 miles stalked...
..and just what was she doing with the tubing, scissors, etc....
..funny that you should call the other poster immature....
.. name calling (on your part)...
..yeah, that's real mature!
Reading comprehension isn't your forte is it?
I don't think she's "mad as a hatter" but I do think it's important to pray for all those you mentioned, and for the love interest as well, since this has got to be a big blow to him and his family as well.
I don't think she was planning on bringing her back home alive. Reality says way too risky with a long trip like that. Nope, I think she was going to knock her off right down there.
It was a pounds-seconds Newton-seconds error in the software. See post #534.
Once again:
It was a pounds-seconds ('Merican units) Newton-seconds (Metric units) error in the software.
OTOH, since it isn't clear where the Mars ORBITER (not lander) ended up, I'll give you the probability that it smashed into the surface.
Goodness gracious, she printed the maps for the trip from Houston to Orlando on Jan. 23rd.
Pepper Spraying someone constitutes battery. Go to law school if you want to opine on legal concepts so you don't commit further howlers like this one.
Wouldn't pepper spray be a salt and battery?
Except the one my ex favored:
Talking her to death...
groan...
I agree. There have been missions that went up with the published briefing that they involved military objectives. I had first hand contact with Top Secret satellite capabilities thirty years ago by working on the landlines that supported them. I can imagine what we may never know about current capabilities.
I am sure there is great stress for those working directly with space-borne intelligence systems. I would think it might be the same stress that a Nuclear Fire Control Officer might experience.
I only fear that in her obvious unstable mental condition she may actually attempt to harm herself. I don't believe she would be harmed by anyone else.
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