{"id":913,"date":"2007-03-27T15:42:56","date_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:42:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/?p=913"},"modified":"2007-03-27T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2007-03-27T15:42:56","slug":"the_latest_on_the_jealous_astr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/2007\/03\/27\/the_latest_on_the_jealous_astr\/","title":{"rendered":"The Latest on The Jealous Astronaut"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone else is following this story or cares in the least, but I have a morbid fascination for it, so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening with former astronaut Lisa Nowak:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Her attorneys formally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/ap_070323_nowak_plea.html\">entered a &#8220;not guilty&#8221; plea<\/a> last Thursday. (The article notes that this is in addition to an earlier, written plea, which I&#8217;m assuming is the one I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/2007\/03\/update_on_the_jealous_astronau.html\">here<\/a>; I&#8217;m still not certain how or why you would plead twice like this.)\n<li>Lisa, a US Navy officer who was technically just on loan to NASA, has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/ap_070321_nowak_newjob.html\">new assignment<\/a> developing flight-training lesson plans at an air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. A Navy spokesman indicated that she would be working in &#8220;more of a course developer role, rather than be[ing] a direct instructor.&#8221; No doubt this is a tactful way of saying that she&#8217;ll be safely confined to a cubicle somewhere and not allowed to interact with the impressionable trainees.\n<li>And finally (and not surprisingly), NASA has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/news\/070326_nasa_healthcare.html\">announced the formation of a new committee<\/a> to review the healthcare services the agency currently offers to astronauts, as well as how astronauts are screened for both mental and physical health. I imagine one of the goals of this review is to figure out how Nowak&#8217;s, um, condition went unnoticed until she became dangerous.\n<\/ul>\n<p>Lisa Nowak&#8217;s trial is expected to begin on July 30.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t know if anyone else is following this story or cares in the least, but I have a morbid fascination for it, so here&#8217;s what&#8217;s happening with former astronaut Lisa Nowak: Her attorneys formally entered a &#8220;not guilty&#8221; plea last Thursday. (The article notes that this is in addition to an earlier, written plea, [&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-913","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\/913","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=913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jasonbennion.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}