{"id":602,"date":"2007-02-06T08:07:39","date_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scaredpoet.com\/wordpress\/?p=602"},"modified":"2007-02-06T08:13:27","modified_gmt":"2007-02-06T13:13:27","slug":"astronauts-with-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/?p=602","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts with benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"astronaut<\/a> \"nowak<\/p>\n

Yes, these are images of the same person. Meet Lisa Marie Nowak, the photo on the left being a mugshot taken on one of her off-days. Seems that romance does<\/em> happen in the space program, and evidently, it can get ugly.<\/p>\n

So what happened? Another astronaut, Bill Oefelein<\/a>, was allegedly in some kind of “relationship” with both Nowak and a second female astronaut. Nowak didn’t take kindly to this, and…<\/a><\/p>\n

Shipman [the “other woman”] told police that she arrived at [Orlando International] airport at about 1 a.m. but had to wait two hours for her luggage to arrive.<\/p>\n

Once she retrieved her bags, she said she took a bus to the lot where her car was parked, noticing a woman wearing a trench coat who appeared to be following her.<\/p>\n

Fearing for her safety, Shipman quickly stepped into her car, the police report said, adding that she reported hearing “running footsteps” behind her.<\/p>\n

Shipman closed and locked her car door as Nowak slapped the window of the car and tried to open the car door, the report said.<\/p>\n

Nowak told Shipman her ride had not arrived and asked for help, but Shipman refused, saying she would send help instead. When Nowak complained she couldn’t hear Shipman and started to cry, Shipman opened her car window “about 2 inches” — and Nowak sprayed pepper spray into the car, police said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

There’s more. After police were summoned, they found a folding knife, a steel mallet, and discovered Novak trying to dispose of a wig and a pellet gun. Someone<\/em> had plans!<\/p>\n

By the way… Nowak is married to someone else, and has two kids. Who knew NASA had such a riveting real life space-opera going on?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yes, these are images of the same person. Meet Lisa Marie Nowak, the photo on the left being a mugshot taken on one of her off-days. Seems that romance does happen in the space program, and evidently, it can get ugly. So what happened? Another astronaut, Bill Oefelein, was allegedly in some kind of “relationship” […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scaredpoet.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}