We are unused to hearing or reading anything that isn't absolutely stellar about U.S. astronauts, but despite her good work in the space program, Lisa Marie Nowak let the green-eyed monster get the better of her in 2007.
Americans who follow the news were surprised to learn that she had been arrested for allegedly attempting to kidnap a romantic rival for the affections of a male astronaut, William Oefelein.
The third party in this love triangle was Colleen Shipman, an Air Force officer.
Shipman maintained that Nowak had stalked her over a two-month period. In an Orlando parking lot, Nowak apparently sprayed Shipman through the driver's window of Shipman's car with pepper spray. Police arived to find Nowak attempting to dispose of a bag that held a BB gun, wig, knife, mallet, gloves and other odds and ends.
Nowak was at first denied bail, but that decision was later changed. She was allowed to plead guilty in 2009 to a lesser charge of battery, but her job as a NASA astronaut had been terminated in 2007.
How sad that Nowak's stellar accomplishments were tarnished by something such as this.
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