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The State | 02/06/2007 | Astronaut arrested on battery charges — I mean doesn’t NASA screen people for instability? Gak!

A NASA astronaut is being held without bail after police say she attacked her rival for another astronaut’s attention at Orlando International Airport on Monday.

Lisa Marie Nowak drove more than 12 hours from Texas to meet the 1 a.m. flight of a younger woman who had also been seeing the 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, and latex gloves in her car, reports show. They also found diapers, which Nowak said she used so she wouldn’t have to stop on the 1,000-mile drive.

Aren’t there fraternization rules? Geez.



  1. Major Jizz says:

    The diaper thing was gross and creepy. I guess it’s an astronaut thing…

  2. Greg Allen says:

    That mug shot is pretty good but Nick Notle’s still the winner!

  3. busdriver says:

    Make NASA stop wasting HUGE amounts of money, they should let private enterprise get into space. The shuttle is 30+ years old, going into low earth orbit, something we have been doing for 40+ years.

    The FAA doesn’t run an airline, they oversee and regulate.

    Witness the Wright Bros, who had little to no govt support, to spaceship one. All huge success stories. What does the US govt do effecient and well? Besides waste money

  4. V says:

    So remember that thing that was flying around O’Hare?

    The aliens got to her…

  5. Smartalix says:

    It just goes to show you that love makes fools of us all…

  6. Miguel says:

    Now THIS surprised me. As most people I only followed her mission on NASA TV, and she looked OK, friendly and smiling all the time, I actually liked her from this distance.

    Presumably astronauts aren’t unlike any other person. Any of us can go berserk and snap just like that, if the right buttons are pressed. I’m assuming that’s what’s happened to her. Hopefully this will turn out alright, even if she has to do time…

  7. RTaylor says:

    …..like a woman scorned.

  8. Scott Gant says:

    Nowak? Sounds like TOTAL wak to me.

  9. Named says:

    was wearing a trench coat and wig and had a knife, BB pistol, and latex gloves in her car

    Sounds like a sexy visit!

  10. Miguel says:

    Without kidding, those details spooked me a bit… latex gloves… rubber tubing… knife… was she planning a murder?

  11. Lauren the Ghoti says:

    A Houston psycho bitch. It figures. I’ve met exactly four sane, intelligent, honest, moral, non-substance-dependent women in Houston – every one of them was from somewhere else.

  12. Noam Sane says:

    Diapers?

    How long does it take to stop and pee?

    Cripes.

  13. JT says:

    Does this tie in with your “Space Nookie — The Next Frontier” post from earlier? It was so good she snapped!

  14. Smartalix says:

    Considering all the gear, don’t forget this was a freaking astronaut crazy-ass bitch. You don’t become stupid when you go crazy, you just do wack shit in a very meticulous manner. She probably has a list somewhere like Kiddo in Kill Bill.

  15. chitown says:

    the sad thing is if you look at her bio she has stellar record and graduated from the Naval Test Pilot School! she has/had the right stuff.

    maybe she was infected by a space parasite ala the Hidden. 🙂

  16. Dugger says:

    Lifetime television channel has just found another story to make into their movie of the week.

  17. Olo Baggins of Bywater says:

    12…there aren’t many rest stops over the Gulf.

  18. Mr. Fusion says:

    #5,
    It just goes to show you that love makes fools of us all…
    Comment by Smartalix — 2/6/2007 @ 4:04 am

    Except James Hill. He was a fool to begin with.

    LOL, OK, James, just kidding, I couldn’t resist the opening.

  19. Sounds The Alarm says:

    I think I dated her….

  20. Rob says:

    Looks like we just found a way to continue funding NASA space exploration – turn it into a reality show, full of lust and debauchery! And their very own Judge So-and-so to sort it all out. Commercial sponsers will line up like crazy.

  21. Janky says:

    The report I read said that the arriving astronaut (on a 1AM flight) had to wait two hours for her luggage. I wonder which chicago-based airline she was flying?

  22. Miguel says:

    People, this has nothing to do with NASA…

  23. Gig says:

    #22. “People, this has nothing to do with NASA…”

    I’d say thier Psyc screening aren’t what they used to be.

  24. Here you will find recent Hi RES
    Photo’s of the astronaut in the news.

    U.S. Navy Captain Lisa Nowak

    http://www.tcf.net/NEXTFEST2006/
    http://www.tcf.net/NEXTFEST2006/slides/_R290021.html

    A big difference from the image circulating the news.

    –Big Rich

  25. Greg, I’ve always thought the Yasmine Bleeth pic was the real winner here.

  26. Miguel says:

    May he/she who never behave insanely because of some sentimental issue cast the first stone…

    (I know this isn’t probably good English, but you get my drift. Many people do crazy shit over this sort of situation.)

  27. John Paradox says:

    Make NASA stop wasting HUGE amounts of money, they should let private enterprise get into space

    How is NASA stopping anyone? Isn’t it VIRGIN that’s one of the independents working on private access to space?

    J/P=?

  28. oil of dog says:

    #19 I think I married her

  29. James Hill says:

    Shouldn’t this thread be combined with the space nookie thread?

    Also, this crazy space bitch is the cousin of the big Italian deli owner here in SLC. There’s a joke in there, somewhere…

    …unlike with Mr. Fusion’s posts, which are always a joke.

  30. Was she wearing Depends or Huggies?


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