Astronaut drives 900 miles in diapers

Many inside and outside the space agency are wondering how the problems of Captain Nowak, who graduated from the Naval Academy in 1985 and served in the Navy before joining National Aeronautics and Space Administration, were not detected before this. Many are also wondering whether the “Right Stuff” image of astronauts has been tarnished, or if that image somehow confused technical excellence with emotional stability.

Just conjures up several technically excellent ppl I've run across.

“It’s too early to speculate on what actions we’ll take, but now her status with us is unchanged,”

x-post - And Alba.

This one links to a lot of information, it is such an odd story.

"Yes, it resembles the frozen void of outer space perfectly."

I would like to send this sentence back in time to pre-internet days.

dude if you fart you don't need to go to the loo nor wear diapers.

ah you mean gaaas. okay.

http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/mind/wwr_manic.html#eroto

Erotomaniacs usually focus their attention on those with high social status, quite often celebrities or public figures. They also go for people who have shown them kindness or helped them in some way – for example, a doctor. And they do more than innocently daydream about the object of their desire. They fabricate a whole relationship with that person, going in to great detail. They believe that they will be with that person one day and won't accept rejection. Simply unable to recognise that the person doesn't share their feelings, they assume that someone else must be manipulating the person they love or doing something to prevent them being together. (For example, they might think 'His wife made him get that restraining disorder, he really wants to be with me.')

A happy ending. As it were.

think diaper girl's invited?

Looking for a date?

just fyi she didn't actually wear any diapers

Orlando Detective William Becton was the first to discover the diapers when he opened a trash bag inside Lisa Nowak's car and found two used diapers. In his charging affidavit he wrote, "… I then asked Mrs. Nowak why she had the baby diapers. Mrs. Nowak said that she did not want to stop and use the restroom, so, she used the diapers to collect her urine."

Detective Becton secured plenty of evidence from the car, but did not photograph or collect the two used diapers from the back seat of Nowak's car, or the "twenty to thirty unused diapers" that he found in the trunk. This omission allowed some wiggle room for Nowak's lawyer.

It took four months, but on June 29, 2007, Nowak's criminal attorney, Donald Lykkebak, told members of the press that the diaper story was inaccurate.

''The biggest lie in this preposterous tale that has been told is that my client drove from Houston, Texas, to Orlando, Florida, nonstop, wearing a diaper. That is an absolute fabrication. There were toddler-size diapers in her car when she was arrested, but they were several years old," Lykkebak said.

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