On February 5, 2007, American naval flight officer and NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak drove from Houston, TX to Orlando, FL, wearing a diaper to avoid bathroom stops along the way, carrying disguises and weapons. Her destination was the Orlando airport. He unknowing target was a U.S. Air Force Captain named Colleen Shipman.
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Sources:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/06/us/06cnd-astronaut.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20050817035733/http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/nowak.html
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-astronaut/second-astronaut-fired-in-nasa-love-triangle-idUSN2585185420070526
https://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/astronaut-love-triangle-victim-colleen-shipman-discusses-attack/story?id=12941981
https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/02/lisa-nowak-space-oddity/71383/
https://okmagazine.com/news/diaper-astronaut-slighted-ignored-attempted-kidnapping/
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7226705
https://web.archive.org/web/20070208053338/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/space/orl-bk-nasaastronaut0507feb05,0,6104316.story?coll=orl-home-headlines
https://web.archive.org/web/20070217040002/http://www.orlandosentinel.com/media/acrobat/2007-02/27756582.pdf
https://www.chron.com/news/nation-world/article/Nowak-insanity-defense-raises-issues-for-NASA-1823124.php
https://www.foxnews.com/us/ex-astronaut-lisa-nowak-forced-out-of-navy
https://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2007/mar/HQ_07026_Nowak_Status.html
https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Where-Lisa-Nowak-Now-2019-45941897
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