WTF? Astronauts behaving badly!

"ed kyle" wrote:

On Feb 5, 10:30 pm, robert casey wrote:
"Fatal Attraction" meets "I Dream of Jeannie"?

Not what NASA needed this week. Hopefully Ms. Nowak will get
a good attorney, followed good some good counseling.

If any of this is true, I doubt that NASA would keep her as an
astronaut. They're not gonna want someone who could go loopy up in orbit...

Probably a career-ending deal, but I'm also thinking that
NASA might be well served to seek political help here,
to have someone powerful politely "ask" the local D.A.
to make the kidnapping charge go away.

That would be the *worst* thing NASA could do, as it would make it
look like they are attempting a coverup.

Kidnapping sounds very "iffy" anyway.

The charge is 'attempted kidnapping'.

(Who in the jury pool hasn't become goofy-angry over a relationship
conflict during their life, and at least thought about doing something
stupid?).

Everybody *thinks* about it - but Nowak crossed the line and *did*
something about it. Juries won't tend to be sympathetic to the
"you've thought about it, so she shouldn't be held responsible for
actually doing it" arguement.

This incident would quickly fade from the news without that more serious
charge - otherwise it could become a longer-running staple of the cable
talk-show circuit, like "Runaway Bride", et. al..

It would be awful hard to make that charge 'go away' considering the
detailed preperation made by Nowak - including items which could be
construed as showing evidence of stalking and other items which
provided a greater possible threat.

D.
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Oct 5th, 2004 JDL