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TIL After her space shuttle flight, astronaut Lisa Nowak was diagnosed with a variety of mental illnesses, including Asperger's disorder and obsessive compulsive personality disorder. NASA declined to comment whether it identified the disorders when she joined NASA's astronaut corps

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