<p>As terrible as it is for an astronaut to be arrested I just hope it isn't compounded by finding out that she was a Service Academy graduate.</p>
<p>USNA class of 1985, I'm sorry to say. :(</p>
<p>Aerospace engineer, married, mother of 3, Navy Captain, veteran astronaut.</p>
<p>Interrogative.... Whiskey, Tango, Foxtrot, over. :mad:</p>
<p>No, I think it'll be compounded by the evidence she was trying to throw away.</p>
<p>I think she'll be retiring from NASA.</p>
<p>Well, small relief for me that it wasn't WP. Hard to believe she made it through USNA, and the astronaut training program, and her mental instability wasn't caught somewhere along the line. I assume her lawyer will send her to rehab - like everyone else these days - and ask that we forget about everything, e.g. the Mayor of San Francisco.</p>
<p>At the time she was applying to NASA, there was more of a push to take women, and they have some good ones (i.e. Pam Melroy). They give you a battery of tests and interviews. You can fudge your way through if you're smart, and apparently she was, and get picked up.</p>
<p>NASA, I'm pretty sure, is done with her. Navy, too.</p>
<p>Well, I've ranted about this elsewhere already, but so far we have no information on whether her husband knew anything about the affair. Also, you don't graduate USNA, become a Navy Captain, and fly on the Space Shuttle by being anything less than brilliant. I'm not going to sit here and question her obvious abilities.</p>
<p>One of three things has happened here:</p>
<p>1) She simply snapped.</p>
<p>2) She has something medically wrong with her head. (For real, not made up. Like a tumor or something.)</p>
<p>3) She has been doing some kind of drugs or something, or just threw caution to the winds.</p>
<p>If it's 1), I'll reserve judgement. If it's 2), then I really feel sorry for her. If it's 3), I have no pity at all.</p>
<p>I reckon we'll have to wait and see. I'm glad, however, that I'm not her husband. :(</p>
<p>I don't think there's any gender issue involved here. There have been a number of wonderful female astronauts who have more than held up the excellence of the astronaut corps. Seems this bad apple was having some kind of affair with another astronaut - male. Bad judgment by both parties. Let's hope he's not a Service Academy grad or military.</p>
<p>I agree that it is not a gender issue and I would add it is not a service academy issue. I think she just snapped as Z speculated in his explanation no.2.</p>
<p>He's not a servic acad. grad., not that that matters. Like BigGreen says, bad judgement by both parties. She was married, he was not. Sounds like he was unreciprocating or just messing around with her. She had a more vested emotional interest. </p>
<p>He graduated from Univ. of Oregon (undergrad) with a graduate degree from Univ of Tenn., went through OCS. </p>
<p>She shouldn't have gone breaking her marriage vow and he shouldn't have helped her.</p>
<p>I'm not trying to make it a gender issue, okay? Let's get past this part of the discussion. Sorry I put that in there, but it is true. Sorry it's not as relevant.</p>
<p>Did anyone ever see the "Far Side" comic where the two astronauts land on the moon and the one punches the other in the face and breaks his face shield? It was funny cause astronauts are supposed to be so calm, cool and collected. And they took their grudge to the moon.</p>
<p>$15K bail, electronic ankle bracelet, 15 mile radius stay away order from Cape Canaveral (where the AF Capt. chick works). They feel the astronaut is a serious threat the AF Captain's safety. </p>
<p>Ya' think?</p>
<p>My heart goes out to her 3 children. Her husband too of course. I feel so sad for those children, they must be devastated seeing their moms mug shot splattered accross America today. My prayer is that she gets the help she needs & the kids & husband come out OK as well.</p>
<p>Amen, CelticClan07. How do you manage damage control for her poor kids? I'm sure her husband feels like a nuclear bomb has gone off in his world, as well. She has no idea what her actions have rendered, but she will.</p>
<p>I'm with you in the prayers.</p>
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<p>Ain't it the truth. One day Mommy is the uber-cool astronaut, with her picture on the classroom walls and kids taking her launch date off to watch it on TV, and all the kids thinking your mom is SO UTTERLY COOL, and then the next morning THIS happens. Yeesh. :(</p>
<p>I agree with Z, I think there's something wrong with her. How do you knowingly throw away your life if you're in your right mind! She sounds obessed and not rational. Does anyone know how old her kids are?</p>
<p>One is a teenager. Two little girls are twins (less than 13, but I don't know specifically).</p>
<p>Just read that her son was born in 92 and the twin daughters in 2001. The little girls are probably too young to realize what's happening but my heart breaks for the son, no age is good for something like this, but 15 is as bad as it gets. I didn't realize but her husband works for Mission Control.</p>
<p>I read on CNN that Nowak said her relationship with Oefelein was "more than a business relationahip, but less than a romantic relationship". Cant find any info whether Oefelein and/or Shipman were married.</p>