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astronaut love triangle

Well theres something you dont see every day. A NASA astronaut who goes off the handle in an attempt to keep her boyfriend.

My first thought when I read this is that at Mess Halls around the world and in the galleys of Aircraft Carriers are men and women who were turned down by NASA, who after reading this story realize that their slot into space was taken, not by a better pilot or aviator, but by a crazy woman. You will be able to tell who they are because they will be rather animated in their speech patterns and perhaps a little more honest than usual about their assessment of other pilots. I'd stay away from them today if I were you. They are likely to be a very bad mood.

My second thoughts on this are not for general publication.

Posted @ February 06, 2007 07:39 AM | Current Affairs

Wait a minute - who says that someone can't be a better pilot and a crazy woman?

According to the Orlando Sentinel article, she's "a former test pilot who has logged more than 1,500 hours of flight in at least 30 types of aircraft." Isn't that a pretty respectable record?

Posted by: Kevin at February 6, 2007 10:12 AM

Better pilot, yeah.

Better astronaut candidate?, no.

There more to being a good astonaut candidate than the amount of hours in the log book. Theres a whole psycology to working in close confines that needs to override the ability to fly an inside loop or a make a good landing.

I guarantee you that the people out there that are the most angry are professional women pilots, who after working for a lifetime against gender bias in the cokcpit now find their gender to be the butt of jokes all around the world becasuse of little miss "estro-naut". After a lifetime of crawling over broken glass to get respect, one jackass comes into the public view to screw it up for everyone else who is out there doing good work.

Posted by: frank martin at February 6, 2007 10:21 AM

It may be of some interest that Dr. Sanity weighed in on the issue:
http://drsanity.blogspot.com/2007/02/crashing-to-earth.html

She's a Psychiatrist who used to work for NASA back in the 80s.

Posted by: Sneecker at February 7, 2007 09:46 PM

Mrs. Lisa Marie Nowak's lawyer(s) will probably use the temporary insanity defense and point out the mitigating circumstances that their client didn't resort to carry out a deranged plan to obliterate romantic competition. The other two astronauts should have their heads examined since they shared private e-mails that our fallen hero printed out as long as the love letter from Mr. Offelein. UCMJ should be upheld, too.

Posted by: Eduardo J. Cera-Calderon at February 8, 2007 03:40 PM