For a Change, a Warm, Huggy Astronaut Story
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WHAT WOULD this romantic week be without a couple of heartwarming stories that illustrate the Valentine wonderfulness and all the complex, yet thrilling, emotions it stirs up?   We're speaking, of course, of the tipsy, backstabbing mayor saga and the tale of the astronaut-in-a-diaper.
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By Homer Hickam  As a former NASA astronaut training manager responsible for crew training for shuttle missions, I was not entirely surprised by the initial reports of the sad, bizarre case of Lisa Marie Nowak.
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When Sean OâKeefe took the top NASA job in 2001, the space community didnât know quite what to make of him. A self-described ânumbers guyâ, he was a management expert and his former
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The first paying female space tourist said Friday she felt a little queasy on her rocket ride to the international space station but she since has been enjoying every minute of her cosmic trip.
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HOUSTON -- That's one small word for astronaut Neil Armstrong, one giant revision for grammar sticklers everywhere.
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By The Hartford Courant, Conn.  Feb. 9--Astronaut Lisa Marie Nowak is the butt of David Letterman and Jay Leno jokes, but her meltdown is as heart-rending as it is funny.
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Last fall, fresh from her trip into space, astronaut Lisa Nowak returned to Maryland to visit each of her old schools, to sign autographs, share the joys of freeze-dried food and recount 13 days in the weightless void.
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U.S. News & World Report - It's difficult to indict the cable news channels too much for their obsessive coverage today of a diapered astronaut's           kidnapping attempt of a rival lover of one of her fellow spacemen. This kind of thing is solid gold for TV movie producers and pun-happy headline writers (e.g. "Astro-naughty"). But this incredible, stranger-than-fiction story of a bitter romantic struggle among astronauts does inevitably lead to the question: What is the psychological toll of zero gravity?
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By The Miami Herald  Feb. 8--The meltdown of astronaut Lisa Nowak is strange and sad. Even though we no longer throw ticker tape parades for NASA astronauts returning from outer space, they still hold a special place in our collective national image. Astronauts are our heroic pioneers.
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ONE of Americaâs greatest unsung heroes, an astronaut who touched the stars yet barely scraped the surface of public recognition, is to retire.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER  and ERIN McCLAM, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  ORLANDO, Fla.  In July, astronaut Lisa Nowak traveled 5.3 million miles in a single-minded mission to put America's beleaguered space shuttle program back on track.
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I have been to zero gravity and flown like Superman. This is something that only astronauts and the stars of Apollo 13 have done before.
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Want to make someone's Christmas really special this year? Consider a trip to outer space.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER HOUSTON - For the international space station's newest crew member, his first week aboard the orbiting outpost was anything but routine.
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By KATE GORHAM  It was a tabloid editor's dream come true - a diaper-clad, wig- sporting space shuttle astronaut traveling 900 miles by car to confront her perceived rival in a juicy NASA love triangle.
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By Juan Lozano  The crews of Atlantis and the international space station greeted each other with hugs and handshakes yesterday after the space shuttle arrived at the orbiting outpost.
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By Rona Marech, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 7--ROCKVILLE -- Pictures taken before Navy Capt. Lisa M. Nowak's space shuttle mission show her smiling and confident in an orange jumpsuit, with wavy tresses framing her face and an American flag and a model rocket ship behind her.