SPACE CADET LISA NOWAK BOOTED FROM NAVY

SPACE CADET

SHE really was a space cadet - in fact she was a genuine astronaut. 
But after driving 1000 miles, wearing diapers so she wouldn't have to stop to attack her love rival, Lisa Nowak will never see the stars again after she was booted out of the Navy. 
Furious that that Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman  had started a relationship with former space shuttle pilot Bill Oefelein, a Navy commander, who she had also been seeing for two years, plotted her revenge. 
Armed with pepper spray canister found in the parking lot, a BB pistol, 4-inch hunting knife, a rubber mallet, rubber tubing, large garbage bag, she then drove to Orlando International Airport and lay in wait for her rival, who was flying in from Houston.
According to cops Shipman said that after arriving, she was aware of someone following her to an airport satellite parking area. When she got into her car, she heard running footsteps and quickly locked the door. Nowak slapped the window and tried to open the car door, asked for a ride, then started crying. 
Rolling down the window a couple of inches after which Nowak sprayed the pepper spray into the car, before Shipman drove off and called the cops. 
On November 10, 2009, Nowak agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to charges of felony burglary of a car and misdemeanor battery. 
She was sentenced to a year's probation. 
Almost immediately, she was dismissed from the astronaut corps and since then she has been working at the Chief of Naval Air Training station in Corpus Christi, TX. 
But now Top Navy brass said that she will be forced to retire with an 'other than honorable' discharge.

The discharge may affect Nowak's veterans' benefits and her pay grade was knocked down one rank.

Juan Garcia, the assistant secretary of the Navy for manpower and reserve affairs, said in a statement: "Capt. Nowak’s conduct fell well short of that expected of senior officers in our Navy and demonstrated a complete disregard for the well-being of a fellow service member." 

Oefelein and Shipman subsequently retired from the military and married Ocala.com reports. 

Nowak, who has been stationed in Corpus Christi, Texas, could not be reached for comment.