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NASA Fires Astronaut
davidwr writes "In an unprecedented move for an unprecedented situation, NASA has fired now-former astronaut Lisa Nowack. She is facing charges of attempted kidnapping related to an incident earlier this year. Ms. Nowack is a Navy officer and remains so."
listening to her side of the story?
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In an unprecedented move for an unprecedented situation, NASA has fired now-former astronaut Lisa Nowack.
It's not completely unprecedented. They fired the Challenger crew. I guess they just couldn't keep it together.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Apparently, you've not seen very many gas station restrooms.
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Astronauts use rocket fuel in their cars. It's an explosive blend with great mileage.
Oefelein told investigators he and Nowak both served on the bicycling team at NASA... Man, I know NASA is strapped for cash, but bicycles?
Either that or the guy is hung like a coal-mine mule.
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Only on slashdot would you have someone question the logic of a nutcase wearing diapers in order to avoid taking bathroom breaks.
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I find that it's the "Flamebait" mod that changes it from "wrong but funny" to "wrong but hilarous".
Yeah, I guess some people are still pretty broken up over the whole Challenger thing.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
Your calculations may be being generous, to be sure, but 10 minutes is excessive. Five would be closer to the truth in all but extreme cases. Particularly since I don't know anyone who would willingly linger in a petrol station bathroom!
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They're custom-made from Lockheed Martin, spent 8 years in development each at a cost of $650 million, use military-grade titanium frames and have wheels made up of 65,000 tiny sheets of vulcanized rubber which are handmade and then painstakingly knit together to best resist wear-and-tear with the road. They're only used for serious scientific business, like carrying a mouse in the basket to see what the physiological changes are to a mouse riding a bicycle. It was determined that the changes are rather similar to what a mouse experiences in low-gravity: not much, and if you give him cheese he really couldn't care less.
Plans to retest using a hamster and sunflower seeds were scrapped after the bike was totaled in a training accident. (A NASA bicycle rider on loan from the Air Force attempted to take the bicycle over a 3 inch curb, which should have been within the 5 inch tolerance level of the suspension. Unfortunately, one of NASA's subcontractors designed for 5 cm tolerance level instead, and after the suspension exceeded tolerance it folded like only a $600 million can can.)
NASA is now submitting a proposal for a better, more expensive bicycle to continue their important scientific mission. $1 billion is slated for testing the suspension under a variety of stressful conditions, and as much as $2.50 is slated for experimental apparati for measuring the responses of the hamster.
Help poke pirates in the eyepatch, arr.
Better question: Would you let somebody with obvious mental instability babysit your $1.3 billion kid?
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She had to go. Were it the NBA, they could have just fined her, or sent her to rehab, but.....
NASA has fired astronauts before, people. Apollo 1, Challenger, Columbia... all "fired" for various reasons. /...17 in the ashtray
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She is technically on lone from the Navy
I believe you meant, "one loon from the Navy."
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...welcome the new 'diaper' tag, and look forward to seeing it used more often on /.
"I'd imagine that it takes very little in the way of strange behavior to disqualify a person for astronaut duty"
Like wanting to be blasted into space in an outdated craft stuck on top of a giant fuel tank?
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