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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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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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It blew their minds...
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
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.....
She is technically on lone from the Navy
I believe you meant, "one loon from the Navy."
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"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?