Astronaut charged in attempted murder/love triangle drama

[Mr. Anderson]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/02/06/astronaut.arrested/index.html

Wow, they couldn't even write this stuff for a movie on the Lifetime Cable channel.

Nowak wore a diaper during the 14-hour drive so that she wouldn't have to stop for bathroom breaks, the report said. Astronauts wear what NASA calls maximum-absorbency garments to collect their waste during space travel.

Shipman told police she arrived at the Orlando International Airport about 1 a.m. and had to wait two hours for her luggage.

As Shipman walked to her car she noticed a woman in a trench coat who appeared to be following her, the police report said. She quickly jumped into her car and heard "running footsteps" behind her, Shipman told police.

Nowak slapped the window of the car as Shipman locked it, the report said. Nowak then tried to open the car door, saying that her ride had not arrived.

Shipman told Nowak she would send for help, but when Nowak said she couldn't hear her and started to cry, Shipman cracked her window, the report said. The 2-inch space in the window was all Nowak needed to send pepper spray into the car, police said.

Her eyes burning, Shipman drove to a tollbooth and reported the incident.

And you have to wonder what astronaut Bill Oefelein is thinking or what sort of locker room talk is going on

Just unbelievable....

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[emw]

I saw this in the paper this morning and heard in on the news on the way in to work. Bizarre. Add to the story that this woman (the woman driving from Houston to Orlando with a diaper, rubber hoses, a mallet, plastic garbage bags, a buck knife, and pepper spray) was flying a shuttle mission a month ago and it gets really scary.

Truth is indeed stranger than fiction...

 

[phungy]

Read it in the paper while in class too. Though its serious, it made me laugh. Some people need serious help.

 

[spicyapple]

Are astronauts not required to undergo psychological testing to uncover strange behaviour such as this? Ah well, I read it earlier today but thought it was some joke.. glad to see the world is crazier than I am.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Just goes to show you why ET wont have much to do with us when even our astronauts are crazy.

Maybe she was just space happy

To much time in NASA diapers it appears.

 

[CEAbiscuit]

On the up side, this astronaut really focuses on a mission.

 

[failsafe1]

See this proves if we would spend more time in space our astronauts would not have so much free time. Good thing we don't have space ray guns either. Be careful you'll shoot your eye out and send it into a decaying orbit around earth!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[sturigdson]

Okay.

With this and the Boston AquaTeen "bomb scare," I really think this is my favorite news-week ever.

 

[failsafe1]

Okay.

With this and the Boston AquaTeen "bomb scare," I really think this is my favorite news-week ever.

Perhaps she panicked and thought the end was near when she saw the AquaTeen bombs and did now want to die without expressing her true feelings. Or worse yet perhaps the AT bomb brain scrambler made her do it.

 

[emw]

On the up side, this astronaut really focuses on a mission.

Nice.

I do like how she went so far as to wear diapers so she didn't need to take bathroom breaks. Don't let my boss hear about this or we'll have a new company policy.

 

[Swarmlord]

Wow, they couldn't even write this stuff for a movie on the Lifetime Cable channel.

I thought the same thing. Had someone written something like this in a screenplay they would have been laughed out of the room.

She's got that same crazed look as that Runaway Bride gal. What was odd was that she was married and had three kids. Usually these stalker, obsessive compulsive type people are single, divorced or somehow unattached and then imagine themselves in a relationship that doesn't really exist.

I wonder what the guy has to say about what their relationship has been. I knew a girl once that could develop a crush and be convinced you were her steady girlfriend just because you greeted her with a smile at work (just like you would anyone else). I wonder if the male astronaut even had a clue that this gal had an interest in him outside of work.

She sure threw away a dream career though. I'd bet my life savings she isn't going up on a shuttle mission again.

 

[joepunk]

Got the Right Stuff?

Wouldn’t a long drive like that, particularly in a puddle of your own pee, give you some time to think things over? And come to your senses?

 

[Swarmlord]

Got the Right Stuff?

Wouldn’t a long drive like that, particularly in a puddle of your own pee, give you some time to think things over? And come to your senses?

It takes a certain level of perserverance to see that trek to its conclusion under those circumstances, that's for sure.

I really try to avoid following other people's misery, but this one might be worth tuning in to a couple tabloid shows to get all the salacious details. I'm dying to know what her husband and kids think was going on here.

 

[Dont Hurt Me]

Okay.

With this and the Boston AquaTeen "bomb scare," I really think this is my favorite news-week ever.

The human race is crazier then a popsicle in Alaska. Just this past week we have

Boston is shut down because of Lite Brights signs pushing a cartoon?

We hear about a UFO over O'Hare Airport seen by pilots,mechanics,regular people, cell phone pictures and Dept of Homeland Security response is....nothing?

A D.A.D uses a stun gun multiple times on a infant baby because its crying?

Astronaut drives 900 miles wearing diapers to get at a female rival?

Anyone who says God made us is mistaken or it must have been a Monday or a Friday.

 

[IJ Reilly]

Are astronauts not required to undergo psychological testing to uncover strange behaviour such as this? Ah well, I read it earlier today but thought it was some joke.. glad to see the world is crazier than I am.

Yes, and I have an idea she just flunked her next psych exam.

 

[pilotError]

Its pretty sad really. She's married with 3 kids. She pretty much threw away her entire life (marriage and career) in one desperate action.

 

[FoxyKaye]

Are astronauts not required to undergo psychological testing to uncover strange behaviour such as this?

I think so - a quick Google search reveals a bunch of articles about psychology and astronauts. Looks like she failed both the "performs well under stress" and "plays well with others" sections.

And then I thought - wow, these are the folks building our space station...

 

[Sun Baked]

Yes, and I have an idea she just flunked her next psych exam.

I also tend to think that the doctor that last passed her will get a professional review.

That is going to suck to be that doctor, when your patient turns out to be a nutcase.

Of course look at that guy that sold all the US intelligence data and is in jail for treason, he didn't pass any of his psych exams -- and was continually promoted.

 

[thedude110]

A sad story, but it sells because it's a common story that pulls on our ideals/preconceptions while featuring adults wearing diapers. And they tell us adolescents are drawn to absurdity ...

How long before we get a rush of pulp "Murder in the space shuttle" fiction?

 

[MacNut]

Got the Right Stuff?

Wouldn’t a long drive like that, particularly in a puddle of your own pee, give you some time to think things over? And come to your senses?

HAHA that is brilliant, Post of the day.

 

[plinden]

Add to the story that this woman ... was flying a shuttle mission a month ago and it gets really scary.

Well, she didn't actually fly the shuttle. She was payload ... I mean mission specialist.

 

[MacNut]

A sad story, but it sells because it's a common story that pulls on our ideals/preconceptions while featuring adults wearing diapers. And they tell us adolescents are drawn to absurdity ...

How long before we get a rush of pulp "Murder in the space shuttle" fiction?

We had that already.

 

[Abstract]

Looks like she failed both the "performs well under stress" and "plays well with others" sections.

I think she performs well under stress. She just screwed up at the end of her plan, and only "just."

 

[joepunk]

I bet she was on the "Right Stuff"?

At the time.

Looking at the before and after images of astronut Lisa "Diapers" Nowak. On the left, a healthy lady astronaut. On the right, note the weight loss, thinner hair and papery skin…

Meth…

Which would explain the determination the lady astronaut displayed.

 

[MarkCollette]

Maybe this is due to the stresses of space travel? Tissues break down in space, which can totally mess with hormones. Plus, who knows what kind of freaky radiation she might have been exposed to?