The Strange Story of Lisa Marie Nowak

Love triangles are as old as humankind. With the amount of money our government has invested in this woman, I wonder if NASA or some other governmental agency will interfere with the prosecution and make this case go away? NASA has already interfered by providing her with NASA escorts and not ending her career with NASA. She didn’t murder anyone. She may have entertained the idea of murdering the “other” woman, but obviously if she were intent on murdering she would have ambushed the “other” woman at her home and not approached her in a parking lot – and she would have brought a real gun and not a BB gun. I don’t think attempted murder charges will hold up.

I love this! Day after day, year after year, the media puts on television shows and commercials that ALWAYS make men look stupid. Now I know why . . . women do it in real life and are such fools you can’t make this stuff up . . . diapers anyone? Hey so much for strong women in science!

There is a huge lesson in this story, a story of who we are as a species, about what it means to be human, about what we need to do to better protect and care for each other.
The lesson is, we cannot learn the lesson, and are therefore forever condemned to repeat the cycle of behavior, once the freshness of this memory dulls with the passage of time.
I am Jack’s lovesick heart.

Every radio station in the country ought to be playing Golden Earring’s RADAR LOVE today in honor of Nowak’s epic road trip.
Nine hundred miles nonstop to confront a romantic rival.
You couldn’t fill a phone booth with guys who would get behind the wheel and pee into an incontinence undergarment for fourteen hours over a woman, although the premise might make a good beer ad.
So let’s give Lisa Marie a little credit.
You go, girl.

Her career on this planet is over. Period. Not even a discussion point. Her sordid actions are already on world outlets like wikipedia that won’t fade away like a what we say on an current events blog… . Once the ‘NET’ has you, it’s game over. Trust me, I know.
She has one thing to worry about now – and it isn’t kids, ex-husband, boyfriend, or the National Organization of Italian American Women (NOIAW) – it is minimizing her prison sentence. To do that she will need lots of money, lots of smoke and mirrors lawyers, and she’ll need her gloves back so she can show a jury that they don’t fit.
She has hurt her case a lot already by her police statement. Not much of a chance in totally dodging the attempted kidnapping charge, which in FL comes with a stiff behind bars sentence.
Best case scenario? She can beat the attempted murder rap if she gets the fat cat bottom feeders swimming around in the US legal system to argue for her – which shouldn’t be too difficult in this case, and play the mental illness card heavily.
Indeed, methinks when all this is sinking in for her, her real lifelong battle will be depression of a depth few of you can fathom. One that never goes away… that never diminishes with time… that makes one essentially dysfunctional on many of the dimensions that people who excel need fully functioning and unencumbered. The pain, the disappointment to others, the joke she has become to many… the loss of everything she was will be an incredible weight for her to shoulder… She will be labeled a criminal, a felon… an all-American girl and former space traveller nolonger able to freely travel or even vote. “Friends” who haven’t already deserted her, will… in droves.
I would be very concerned about her committing suicide…
Tom

“Lastime I checked a steel mallet and a knife can also kill.” — No, only people can kill. The steel mallet and knife were in a car far from the scene, and they don’t do anything at all by themselves, unless a person picks them up and uses them purposely.
Lisa used pepper spray. Nothing further than that can be proven.
I suspect there’s much more to the rival than just jealousy — the other woman may have betrayed Lisa professionally, as well. Why don’t we hear more about the other woman? What did she do to Lisa?
Lisa was technically married, but her supposedly “solid” husband abandoned her, and so did Player-Boy Astronaut after he took his fling with her. What about his post-divorce shenanigans? He played a role and is responsible for this, too.
Why is there no support for women in science?

There are two sides to this story…Why blame NASA for not evaulating their employees enough? The Astronauts go through enough training already. They are highly educated and with great personalities. Lisa experienced something tramatic in her personal life because of some guy. Why not blame the guy? Check his mentality, Why does he need to have relationship with so many female?? They might as well psychoanalyze the other woman too. And just because you work for a presige company does not mean the company is liable, everyone has a personal life separeate away from their job, no matter who you are!

There is more to this story than meets the eye. Nowak clearly snapped. If I had been in the other woman’s place (Shipman) I think I would have handled it a lot different. Soon as I knew the identify of Nowak I would have dropped charges. Next thing would be drop Mr. Casanova. Gone to my Navy commander and explained the situation. Let the commander contact NASA and handle it quietly. All of these people involved are in the Navy. NASA and the Navy don’t need all this bad publicity. First thing Shipman does (soon as the ink is dried on police report) is call the boyfriend (or whatever he is). Mr. Oefelein charges in to his superiors to get emergency leave to be at Shipman’s side. If Shipman had handled this different, a lot of lives would have been spared this nightmare, especially Nowak’s and Oefelein’s kids. But Shipman wouldn’t have gotten any attention if this had been kept quiet. Maybe she figured all the attention and sympathy she has gotten is worth it. With all of Nowak’s education, years of training, intelligence and self control just to do the job she does, I can’t see her doing anything this stupid unless something snapped. I’m sure her relationship with Mr. Casanova Oefelein was more than friends, she is protecting his butt by saying they were just friends. Sounds like he had girlfriends while married. He should be fired right along with Nowak. I believe the punishment for adultery as an officer in the Navy is court martial. Why should the man get off free of any wrong doing when he is at the bottom of this disaster. I hope I never hear of him flying around space again.

I remember that a couple of years a ago a female Air Force pilot (a Major) was court marshaled and discharged from the service for adultry. Now that the true nature of relationship has come out – shouldn’t both be kicked our of NASA (not just Nancy) and charged for adultry.