Lisa Nowak

Lisa Nowak.
Lisa Nowak (born 1963) is a former NASA astronaut and United States Navy officer. Nowak graduated from the Naval Academy in 1985. A naval aviator, she was selected for NASA Astronaut Group 16 in 1996, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics. She flew in space in July 2006 aboard Space Shuttle Discovery during the STS-121 mission, where she was responsible for operating the robotic arms of the shuttle and the International Space Station. In February 2007, Nowak was arrested in Orlando, Florida, after she drove about 900 miles (1,400 km) from Texas and accosted and pepper-sprayed Colleen Shipman, a U.S. Air Force captain. Shipman's boyfriend, astronaut William Oefelein, had been in a relationship with Nowak. Terminated by NASA, Nowak pled guilty to burglary and battery in 2009, after which the Navy demoted and discharged her under other than honorable conditions. It was later reported that Nowak was working in Texas.