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Astronaut fired from NASA, no rocket required
Posted on March 8, 2007 4:23 PM
Normally I wouldn't have bothered with the Loony Lisa Nowak story. Fortunately, some forward-thinking NASA administrators have decided to turn their diaper-wearing, Glenn Close-imitating astronaut loose, making her fair Fired Blog game.
They say this has never happened before, which probably means it's never happened where everybody knew about an astronaut getting a pink slip...
It was the first time NASA has publicly fired an astronaut, according to space historian Roger Launius of the Smithsonian Institution. She is also the first active astronaut to be charged with a felony, he said.In case you missed the saga of the lovelorn Nowak or her role in making the concept of the 'astronaut diaper' part of pop culture...
Nowak, a mother of three who is separated from her husband, is accused of confronting Colleen Shipman, the woman who had become Oefelein's girlfriend, at the Orlando airport after driving from Houston. She wore an astronaut diaper so that she would not have to stop during her 900-mile trip, authorities said.Sounds like she's a few stars short of a constellation, doesn't it?
She allegedly pepper-sprayed Shipman through a partially lowered car window. Police said they found a BB gun, new steel mallet, a knife and rubber tubing in Nowak's possession.
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