While this is certainly spectacular, even in the earliest days there were things which did not quite fit the desired picture. One of the things which the old Astronaut Office did was smooth over "Astro-naughties."

Should have learned from a former president; Slick Willy had an entire staff devoted to protecting him from "bimbo eruptions". But hey, that kind of stuff really doesn't matter if you are a liberal, right?

I group up in Clear Lake. My mother worked on the shuttle program. So did the parents of most of my freinds. I went to school with the Astronauts' kids, and dated one for a short time. I knew quite a few astronauts.

Dr. Sanity's description of the astronaut culture is completely foreign to me. He sounds like a bitter ex-NASA employee, frankly. The people he is describing may exist, but I never met any of them.

Having grown up with the program, this news story is truly baffling, and Dr Sanity's opinions do nothing to clear the air.

Now this give a new meaning to the MILE-HIGH CLUB

Kim

When are you going to retract your fraudulent Pelosi/military aircraft story?????

Once again, your favorite Republican Sphincter news agencies, the Washington Times and Fox, in this case the Wash. Times, are found to be nothing more than a Republican sphincter feeding RWB's w/ distortions that fools like you love to rebroadcast w/ no concern to facts.

Breaking News from Fox & the Washington Times

Nowak was actually on a top secret mission,per Pelosi's instructions, to secure Pelosi & family regularly scheduled flights on the shuttle to California due to the fact that standard military transport wastes too much time.

Kim, how did you miss this Pelosi story????

This puke guy is just plain NUTS. ww

Another product of the feminine Naval Academy. Women are not treated the same as the men there. It's a lot different than when I attended in the early sixties. Mixed sexes in the cockpit and the space shuttle. Another stylish decision by our no-nuts government. Dirty Harry would love it.

sad? i think it's freaking hilarious!!!!!

Newmark's a witless chit: "If women are going to claim that they bring special gender-based skills to politics, men can start claiming that they, too, have particular strengths as leaders." (burp)(cough!) HELLO! LIBBY TRIAL!, Oversight hearing on the missing 1/2 BILLION in Iraq! As we speak! W needs his Flying Monkey Squadrons to scramble! Get out of the rack! Out of the rack!

I agree with Bill's assessment of this Dr. Sanity. Maybe when the astronaut program first began they were treated like celebrities, but hardly anymore. I couldn't name 2 astronauts off the cuff. His analysis is pure bunk. I wouldn't even use that tripe to describe folks in Hollywood.

This lady just got jealous, insanely jealous. And I doubt it had anything to do with her treatment as an astronaut.

Now off topic:

To the idiot posting as aRepukelican

Kim

When are you going to retract your fraudulent Pelosi/military aircraft story?????

Yes, she made a post about it, but it wasn't her story you ass. Send an email to the Washington Times. Send an email to Kim, but stop trying to derail other comment threads.

Romantic passion can be such an overwhelmingly powerful emotion that it can put an otherwise rational mind into stupid mode quicker than spit freezes in -40 below air. In stupid mode people kill and commit every other known crime as they seek a relationship with the target of their passion. No group is immune; not politicians, not priests, not doctors, and not astronauts. What makes it news worthy is the surprise people feel when they find out such highly educated, trained, and trusted people suffer from the same failings as the rest of us.

To teach Captain Nowak what it's like to be the object of unwanted attention, or just for punishment in general, I would make her go on dates with nerds starting with me. There's no need for jail time and if the alleged victim complains that the punishment is insufficient, then I would make her date me as well.

Read this woman's bio...she's into "rubber stamps", rubber stamps?!? that should have been a red flag to NASA. Now NASA has it's own Tonya Harding.

Methinks She does not take gravitation lightly.

[I]f you treat astronauts like Hollywood superstars; promote them to the public as if they were God's gift to humanity;

Sound familar?

It should, it's the same reason MLB, NBA and the NFL has so many petty crooks, wife beaters, drug addicts and gun toters in their midst.

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cmon...astronauts are a different breed but still human. same with celebrities. and sports stars. ad infinitum.

Very creative Bill@ 02:56pm

How about

Not
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She was just on a mission to check out space nappies (the Depends 900 mile version.)

Must be something in the rocket exhaust fumes that makes you go batsh*t crazy.

I think Dr. Sanity is either lying about his affiliation with NASA or hasn't been in touch with the program for over 30 years. At a minimum it's obvious he holds some sort of grudge against them--almost like he is about to snap himself.

NASA doesn't create "psychotic superstars" who go around stalking others. This was an individual who chose to do this on her own. Laying this on NASA is just, well stupid.

If anything, the job is such a high pressure one I can see that they might be under so pressure that when they snap they really snap, but this has nothing to do with "superstar" mentality. If anything, a majority of NASA scientists feel the manned space operations are a waste of money and resources and far more should be done with robotic missions.

Dr Sanity is way off base here.

Dr. Sanity was a Psychologist for NASA?

Can you imagine the daily editorial meeting at The Onion?

"So... There's this Sanity guy, but it's a true story. What do you guys have better?"

"Aw.... We got nothin..."

This astronut should have stop at Moody AFB and got pointers from Jill Metzger on how to beat the rap before progressing further.
Just can't get any better! Their flight suit zipper is multidirectional.

About Pelosi:

She got another patsy to cover her ass! Not a bad play!

Dr. Sanity's comments are pure fiction. While it is absolutely true that the stereotype fast-mover pilot has the social maturity of a pre-teen, these folks are screened before and regularly medically and psychologically. There's always some determined nut-case who manages to bluff their way around a while, but once exposed, they loose their flight status UNLESS they have really good connections or a very lazy flight surgeon.

I'm willing to bet this woman might have managed to get by so long by either political connections, or by the promotion factor - when folks are so determined to get rid of someone they get them promoted and off to a new assignment. Much easier than actually punishing them for their crimes. It happens more often than you might believe, and I believe it easily explains the fact that its not just cream that rises to the top in the military.