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TIL About Lisa Nowak, a NASA Astronaut who in 2007 was arrested for the attempted kidnapping, assault and battery of US Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman, the girlfriend of Astronaut William Oefelein, with whom Novak had been romantically involved.

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