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Loading ...Helmet Theme Week- Capt. Nowak
Here is a stencil of Lisa Marie Nowak inside my astro helmet.
I think that it’s not very hard to see why I would take an interest in her case:
From Wikipedia:
Former NASA psychiatrist Dr. Patricia Santy commented, “I really believe that NASA goes overboard in promoting how heroic and super all these people are. They themselves have forgotten these are ordinary people and in that kind of celebrity culture, there’s a sense of entitlement.” Space policy and history writer Howard E. McCurdy of American University said, “The astronaut culture is still a carry over from The Right Stuff days. It is very high intensity; it is very competitive.”
NASA Administrator Michael Griffin commented that “Clearly she is in major trouble, and clearly we failed as an institution to recognize that she was very troubled.”
NASA Flight Surgeon Jonathan Clark, whose wife died in the Columbia Disaster, said, “There has been a lot of marital infidelity in the astronaut corps [and] a huge number of divorces, even in these very educated and talented folks. But you have to wonder what stresses folks are under in that environment.” Specifically about Nowak, he said, “The family separation, and the pedestals astronauts are often put on have the potential to take someone as gifted and talented and fundamentally nice as Lisa Nowak and turn her into someone that is really not her.”
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