NASA Hits New Low: Crazy Female Astronaut Arrested
by Jeff Davis
In another mighty triumph for feminism, a female astronaut has been charged with attempted kidnapping and several other felonies in a love triangle that left the planet. I swear you couldn’t make this stuff up!
Everyone knows the federal government goes out of its way to hire women and minorities instead of white males. Liberals have endlessly proclaimed that jobs which require both physical stamina and technical knowledge don’t require white men. They tell us that minorities are just as smart as white men and that women are just as strong as well as emotionally stable in a high stress environment. While that may be true for a few women, it surely wasn’t true for this demented cracker box who actually went up on a shuttle mission last year and who is now charged with attempted kidnapping and murder.
According to Yahoo News, “An astronaut (Lisa Nowak) drove 900 miles and donned a disguise to confront a woman she believed was her rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot. She was arrested Monday and charged with attempted kidnapping and other counts. U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak, 43, who flew last July on a shuttle mission to the international space station, was also charged with attempted vehicle burglary with battery, destruction of evidence and battery. She was denied bail…Police said Nowak drove from her home in Houston to the Orlando International Airport to confront Colleen Shipman. Nowak believed Shipman was romantically involved with Navy Cmdr. William Oefelein, a pilot during space shuttle Discovery’s trip to the space station last December….Police officers recovered a love letter to Oefelein in her car.”
The article continues: “When she found out that Shipman was flying to Orlando from Houston, Nowak decided to confront her…Nowak raced from Houston to Orlando wearing diapers so she wouldn’t have to stop to urinate. Astronauts wear diapers during launch and re-entry. Dressed in a wig and a trench coat, Nowak boarded an airport bus that Shipman took to her car in an airport parking lot. Shipman told police she noticed someone following her, hurried inside the car and locked the doors, according to the arrest affidavit..Nowak rapped on the window, tried to open the car door and asked for a ride. Shipman refused but rolled down the car window a few inches when Nowak started crying. Nowak then sprayed a chemical into Shipman’s car…Shipman drove to the parking lot booth, and the police were called. During a check of the parking lot, an officer followed Nowak and watched her throw away a bag containing the wig and BB gun. They also found a steel mallet, a 4-inch folding knife, rubber tubing, $600 and garbage bags inside a bag Nowak was carrying when she was arrested.”
In the movie “The Right Stuff” we saw how the early (white) astronauts went through rigorous tests that tried to determine who might panic or break down under severe pressure. Are not astronauts supposed to be given extensive psychological tests to make sure they can handle the stresses and strains of space flight? As well as regular medical workups including psychiatric evaluations? If so, how on earth did this crazy space-bimbo pass these evaluations? Can you say Affirmative Action? Sure you can! Are we supposed to believe that this “officer” was completely sane up until a couple of days ago and suddenly just flipped out without warning? That’s not how mental illness works. Could it be that the NASA shrinks didn’t dare flunk this spaced-out woman for fear of an accusation of sexism and discrimination?
This episode begs another question: suppose she had been on a shuttle during re-entry or orbiting hundreds of miles above the earth in a confined environment when she went bonkers? Or what if she became severely depressed after losing her space-pilot boyfriend and sabotaged a space shuttle so it would crash? The loss of a third shuttle would almost certainly be the end of the whole space shuttle program. We may have come within a hair of a crazy Affirmative Action astronaut causing a multi-billion dollar disaster. NASA is fortunate she confined her psychotic behavior to earth.
Clearly we need to impose rigorous psychological exams as NASA had in its early days. We can’t afford to have astronauts going on a homicidal binge. This latest incident is a HUGE embarrassment for NASA and has cost their reputation severely at a time when public confidence in them is marginal. Imagine what would have happened had she stabbed her space-pilot boyfriend while orbitting the earth.