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Lisa Marie Nowak (née Caputo; born May 10, 1963) is an American aeronautical engineer, former NASA astronaut, and retired United States Navy officer. Nowak served as naval flight officer and test pilot in the Navy, and was selected by NASA for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics .
[1] The Naval Academy is an undergraduate college in Annapolis, Maryland, with the mission of educating and commissioning officers for the United States Navy and Marine Corps. During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the United States Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps ...
Lisa M. Nowak (1 flight; dismissed from the Astronaut Corps and reassigned to the U.S. Navy) [77] STS-121 Discovery (ISS resupply mission; second Return to Flight mission after the Space Shuttle Columbia disaster) [22] Lisa Nowak was arrested on February 5, 2007, after confronting a woman entangled in a love triangle with a fellow
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English: JSC2006-E-20871 (1 June 2006) --- Astronauts Lisa M. Nowak (left), STS-121 mission specialist; Mark E. Kelly, pilot; and Steven W. Lindsey, commander, review data on a computer monitor during a training session at the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory (NBL) in the Sonny Carter Training Facility near Johnson Space Center.
Lisa Nowak: Nowak responded that they have a sun-rise every 90 minutes and have plenty to laugh about. MP3 WAV: Day 5 "God of Wonders" Marc Byrd and Steve Hindalong: Mike Fossum: From his family on the day of his first EVA. MP3 WAV: Day 6 "I Have a Dream" ABBA: Mark Kelly: From his family. MP3 WAV: Day 7 "Clocks" Coldplay: Piers Sellers
Nowak, who flew on STS-121, was arrested on February 5, 2007, after confronting a woman entangled in a love triangle with a fellow astronaut. She was dismissed by NASA on March 6, the first astronaut to be both grounded and dismissed (prior astronauts who were grounded due to non-medical issues usually resigned or retired).
The Academy is often referred to as Annapolis, while sports media refer to the Academy as "Navy" and the students as "Midshipmen"; this usage is officially endorsed. [1] During the latter half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th, the United States Naval Academy was the primary source of U.S. Navy and Marine Corps officers ...