Ex-astronaut challenges police work in Florida case
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ORLANDO, Florida  - Former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak gave police permission to question her and search her car through nods of her head and mumbles of consent, the lead investigator testified in a Florida court on Wednesday.
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By ALICIA CHANG and JEREMIAH MARQUEZ LOS ANGELES - Dennis V. Byrnes, a veteran engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, fired off a 1,300-word letter to his congressman in April complaining of &quot;unwarranted intrusion&quot; into his life.
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Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists and engineers sued NASA and the California Institute of Technology on Thursday, challenging extensive new background checks that the space exploration center and other federal agencies began requiring in the wake of the Sept. 11 terror attacks.
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Even after her arrest for allegedly assaulting a romantic rival, former NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak was so consumed by a lovers&#39; triangle that a police detective urged her to get therapy, according to a transcript of her interrogation released on Monday.
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ORLANDO, Feb. 6 -- She prepared for the 950-mile drive from Houston with the discipline of someone who had flown 13 days in space. The steel mallet, folding knife and rubber tube were all catalogued on a handwritten list, police say. She had maps, she had bus schedules and she had a disguise....
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ORLANDO, Florida  - 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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Former astronaut Lisa Nowak is pursuing an insanity defense on charges that she assaulted and tried to kidnap a romantic rival, according to a document released Tuesday.
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By MIKE BRANOM     ORLANDO, Fla.  -- A former NASA safety inspector accused of falsifying examinations of crucial parts on the space shuttle Discovery pleaded not guilty Friday in federal court, and his attorney called him "meticulous in his work."    A trial for Billy T...
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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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Former US astronaut Lisa Nowak will pursue a defence of temporary insanity at her trial, her lawyers say.
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An ex-employee of the US space agency, Nasa, has pleaded not guilty to charges he falsified reports of safety checks on the space shuttle Discovery.
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Not so long ago, nobody would speak for Lisa Nowak. Accusations that the former astronaut had made a diaper-assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot turned into water-cooler and late-night TV punchlines. She had devolved from a decorated Navy captain into a sad, frantic mess at the end of a jailhouse camera lens.
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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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By Mike Schneider Associated Press  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA said Wednesday it would review its psychological screening process in light of an astronaut's arrest on charges she tried to murder a woman she believed was her rival for a space shuttle pilot's affections.
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ORLANDO, Florida  - A U.S. astronaut accused of trying to kidnap a woman she considered a rival for another astronaut's affections was granted bond at her first court appearance in Florida on Tuesday.
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ORLANDO, March 2 -- 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.
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An US ex-astronaut charged with attempted kidnap can remove a tracking device from her ankle, a court says.