{"id":889,"date":"2007-03-07T17:24:07","date_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=889"},"modified":"2007-03-07T17:24:07","modified_gmt":"2007-03-07T17:24:07","slug":"the_jealous_astronaut_relieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/07\/the_jealous_astronaut_relieved\/","title":{"rendered":"The Jealous Astronaut Relieved of Space Duty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise: <a href=\"http:\/\/space.newscientist.com\/article.ns?id=dn11331\">NASA has fired Lisa Nowak<\/a>. Or, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/070307_nasa_nowak_status.html\">this somewhat more detailed article<\/a> more politely phrases it, she has been &#8220;pulled&#8230; from her spaceflyer detail in a mutual agreement with Naval authorities.&#8221; (Nowak is a captain in the U.S. Navy who has been on assignment to NASA as an astronaut.)<\/p>\n<p>NASA&#8217;s spokesperson was quick to point out that this action was &#8220;not a reflection of NASA&#8217;s belief in Nowak&#8217;s innocence or guilt,&#8221; but was done simply &#8220;because the agency lacks the administrative means to deal appropriately with the criminal charges facing Nowak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I imagine the agency was also eager to distance itself from this whole situation, too, before the dirt starts flying in the courtroom. But maybe I&#8217;m just cynical&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is no surprise: NASA has fired Lisa Nowak. Or, as this somewhat more detailed article more politely phrases it, she has been &#8220;pulled&#8230; from her spaceflyer detail in a mutual agreement with Naval authorities.&#8221; (Nowak is a captain in the U.S. Navy who has been on assignment to NASA as an astronaut.) NASA&#8217;s spokesperson [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-final-frontier"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/889\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}