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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."
Not disagreeing with you, but a definite issue is the large size of the astronaut core overall. Why have so many people, at very high cost, been accepted and trained only to then wait for years for their number to come up and the chance to participate in a mission? It's not unreasonable to think that a smaller group would be easier to monitor for social problems, and correspondingly decrease the probability of something like this happening. If NASA has invested thousands (millions?) per person in training, then they should be paying better attention to these people - they are in effect quite a precious asset. I'd say NASA has a lot of egg on their face here, even if they won't step up to the plate and admit it.
Do you know that she in fact stopped at a gas station? If it were me I'd take my gas in cans in the trunk. I've got my gas with me, I've got my diapers. I haven't seen anywhere that she stopped at a gas station, or that she didn't just carry extra gas with her in the trunk.
Maybe she was a backwoods hiker and thought of the trick of pre-placed cans of gas along the highway where she could grab them later. Good lord, it's not hard to be a criminal genius.
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