Ex-astronaut Nowak to rely on insanity defense
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak will claim she was insane when she stalked and attacked a romantic rival during the unraveling of a love triangle with a fellow ex-astronaut, her lawyer said in court papers released on Tuesday.
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Former NASA astronaut Lisa  Nowak no longer has to wear an electronic ankle bracelet ahead  of her trial next month on charges she attacked a romantic  rival when a love triangle with a fellow ex-astronaut unraveled  in February, a Florida judge ordered on Thursday.
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NASA and the family of astronaut Lisa Nowak released separate statements late Tuesday on the spaceflyer's Monday arrest by Florida police.
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Former NASA astronaut Lisa  Nowak, charged over an alleged attack on a romantic rival,  testified on Friday that police searched her car without her  consent as she sought to have some evidence thrown out.
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By Jeremy Manier, Chicago Tribune  Feb. 11--Florida police would not say last week whether astronaut Lisa Nowak was wearing an official, NASA-issued diaper during her infamous cross-country trek to confront her romantic rival.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak apologized on Friday to Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman, the rival she is accused of attacking during the unraveling of a love triangle with fellow ex-astronaut Bill Oefelein.
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NASA said Wednesday it will examine its psychological screening process for astronauts in light of the bizarre behavior by shuttle astronaut Lisa Nowak, who is charged with attempted murder.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Astronaut Lisa Nowak was fired from NASA on Wednesday, a month after she was charged with trying to kidnap a woman she regarded as her romantic rival for the affections of a space shuttle pilot.
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The charge of attempted murder lodged against U.S. Navy Captain Lisa Nowak is not just a tragedy for the astronaut and her family. It strikes at the cherished image of astronauts as superior individuals who can cope with stresses that might crumple the rest of us.
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U.S. astronaut Lisa Nowak returned to Houston on Wednesday and was to undergo mental evaluation at Johnson Space Center after her arrest on charges she tried to kill a romantic rival for a fellow astronaut.
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A NASA astronaut, Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak, has been charged with the attempted murder of a rival for the affections of a fellow astronaut.
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Florida prosecutors charged an astronaut Friday with trying to kidnap a romantic rival, but they declined to file an attempted murder charge recommended by police. Lisa Nowak, 43, was formally charged almost a month after she was arrested at an Orlando airport parking lot.
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CAPE CANAVERAL -- NASA does not conduct psychological evaluations of its astronauts but will reconsider that policy following the apparent meltdown of Lisa Nowak, charged with attempted murder in Florida, agency officials said Wednesday.
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The lawyer for Lisa Nowak -- the former NASA astronaut accused of assaulting a romantic rival -- is asking a judge this morning to throw out her statements to police, suppress evidence collected from her car and remove her ankle-bracelet monitor.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Astronaut Lisa Nowak, who stunned colleagues by driving from Houston to Orlando in a diaper to confront a woman she thought was a love rival, was charged with attempted kidnapping but not with attempted murder on Friday, prosecutors said.
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New documents add more wacky details to astronaut-turned-accused-assailant Lisa Nowak's already wacky case.
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By John Schwartz THE NEW YORK TIMES  Like most of today's astronauts, Navy Capt. Lisa Marie Nowak worked in relative obscurity -- even last July, when she took the spaceflight that she had spent 10 years at NASA hoping for.