I guess she was pretty much "spaced out" to do something like this. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

WOW! Talk about exposure! Man Oh Man this is the type of exposure that should be available to every BS.

A Navy O-6 (Captain) and pilot and astronaut, her career is over in a very large and exposed way. WOW! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/ooo.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

I feel sad for her children. As parents, we did our best to protect our children from the A. Unfortunately for these children their mother is plastered all over the news.

It shows no one is immune to snapping and falling head first over the deep end.

How much you want to bet that this story WON'T get the romanticized "she did it for love" that the media ALWAYS portrays the A partners in.

PS

I would hate to be the psychiatrist/psychologist that passed her for flight duty. Someone will be looking for a new job.

MSNBC is now reporting that she is being charged with attempted murder.

Stay tuned.
Mulan

I was just scanning the headlines....and the thought that came to my head was "Wow...talk about exposing the affair!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Of course, in MB-parlance it's usually the BS who does the exposing...but exposure is exposure.

And spending several years in jail might serve to cool off the A...

What a mess. Especially, as someone else pointed out, for the BS and 3 kids....to have their personal tragedy become front page news <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />

Update: Nowak has now been charged with attempted murder, but is out on bail. She's been fitted with a GPS tracking device and is apparently going back to Houston.

She has been placed on leave from NASA for the next 30 days.

Word is that she was separted from her husband "several weeks ago". He also works for NASA in Mission Control.

And that Shipman filed a restraining order against Nowak "a couple of months ago".

No word on where Nowak is staying or where her husband and three children are.

It's sad to see the so-called experts trying to make sense of her actions. They are looking at it backwards; they're trying to make it sound like her marriage broke up, so that's why she got involved with the OM and suddenly start stalking his girlfriend. Anyone here could see in a minute that it was the affair with the OM that ruined her marriage and took her off the deep end, but the "experts" would have you think the affair was the *result* of her marriage bustup and personal breakdown and not the *cause*.

No wonder marriages are so utterly screwed up everywhere you look.
Mulan

She sounds like a bunny boiler to me

How exactly do you "protect" your children from an affair?

OH by NOT having one - that would do it!!

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[/quote]How exactly do you "protect" your children from an affair?

OH by NOT having one - that would do it!! [/quote]

Ideally not having an A would have been the best choice, unfortunately not the one I used. I guess I should have phrased it as protecting our children from finding out about the A after d-day. They did not have knowledge of it while it was going on. My H and I did not have any discussions whatsoever about the A if our children were home. We often left and sat in parking lots to discuss things. Our children were old enough to be left home while we left to talk. We made it a point to go for a walk every night so we could talk. The children knew our walk time was our time, they just didn't know what we were discussing.

This morning I saw some morning show anchor do the story, ending with the mandatory head-shake and empty comment about how peculiar it was to hear that an apparently normal woman had "just snapped".

It's not a mystery.

She's in love.

Her mugshot looks just like my former wife looked about 2.5 years ago.

GC

"Bunny boiler" - that was good.

You're right about the media question whether she got separated then formed a relationship w/ an OM, when we know here, from experience, that her already existing EA (probably more) w/ the OM was the reason for her to become a wack job.

She was actually pretty in her bio photo but butt ugly in that mug shot; the burden of an A takes its toll mentally, spiritually and physically. "The truth shall set you free." - MLK Jr. I believe.

V/r,
No way

It sure makes me wonder if the OM was playing mind games with her. Was he getting a big old ego boost, loving it, stringing her along and so forth? We will never know but I would bet things like that certainly played into this. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying it was his fault, just that it certainly could have contributed to her downward spiral.

Read on - this did not happen overnight. The OM and his wife divorced in 2005 and the wife blamed Nowak. It sounds like any other situation that could have been posted here.

Excerpt from an article written and reported by Times staff writers Lianne Hart, John Johnson Jr., Karen Kaplan and Alan Zarembo.
February 7, 2007

. . . (Nowak) prided herself on not having to choose between being a mother and an astronaut, and saw herself as an example for young women.

In 2003, in an interview with the website Parenthood.com, she
described how she and her husband, who worked in mission control for
the International Space Station, managed to raise their son, then 11,
and twin daughters, who were 2.

"We both had to work three- to seven-day shifts with unusual hours -
evenings and overnight - and had to make sure we never got assigned at
the same time so that someone was home with the kids," she said. She
also thanked her "wonderful" nanny.

The high point of her career was her 12-day mission to the
International Space Station. She worked as a mission specialist,
operating the shuttle's robotic arm.

The family lived in a Houston suburb in a two-story house on a
cul-de-sac. A grand piano sat in the living room.

But all was not well in the Nowak household.

She had begun to form a relationship with Oefelein, who was married
and had two children. He was the pilot of the December shuttle
mission.

Nowak told police Monday that the relationship was "more than a
working relationship but less than a romantic relationship."

In 2005, Oefelein and his wife of 17 years, Michealla, divorced.
Charlene Davis, Michealla's mother, said she blamed Nowak, in part,
for the breakup.

"I have not met Lisa," Davis said. "I only know that she broke my
daughter's heart." Oefelein could not be reached for comment.

Nowak separated from her husband in mid-January. Shipman said Monday
in a court filing seeking a restraining order that Nowak had been
stalking her for two months. Shipman described Nowak as "an
acquaintance of my boyfriend."

Nowak was just about to take on a new assignment at Johnson Space
Center, perhaps as a communications specialist in mission control who
becomes the primary contact with astronauts in orbit.

More like....

MM -

It's been a while since I had reason to look at the UCMJ, but isn't there an article in the UCMJ that specifically addresses adultery? If not, the Navy should be able to use Article 134 (or was it 135) - the "catch-all" article, should they (and hopefully they will) pursue disciplinary action against her.

In a perfect world, she'd be court-martialed, stripped of her rank, and lose her retirement and benefits. IMO.

Then again, as a BS, maybe I'm just a tad biased <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

Adultery is a violation of the UCMJ. The guy she was seeing (the shuttle pilot) is also military...so both should be prosecuted (which means two astronuats' careers will go down the drain).

Will they be prosecuted? Dunno. The political backdrop on this may make some decide to just make this go away.

But, if they follow the UCMJ and the letter of the law...both of these two are done.

At least I hope so!

Too funny mortarman!