Where To Get The Real Dirt On The Astronaut Arrest
Crazed astronaut Lisa Nowak is charged with attempted murder of her romantic space rival--Colleen Shipman, who she allegedly attacked with pepper spray at Orlando International Airport earlier this week.
Reportedly, Nowak and Shipman were both in a relationship with Navy Commander Bill Oefelein.
All three of these reported love triangle participants have spent time at Houston's main tourist attraction: Johnson Space Center.
The center encompasses 72,000 square feet of exhibition space, with several interactive participatory displays for visitors. Aside from the requisite zero gravity experience you can also check out hte Astronaut Gallery, a collection of every Nasa spacesuit since the program's inception, as well as photos of each American who has gone into space--see if you can find Norwak's photo.
However, when where do the seeds of such a sordid astronaut love triangle get planted? Surely not at the polished Space Center, nope. If you want to see where the astronauts go to get their drink on, head over to the Outpost Tavern, the best astronaut bar in Houston, during happy hour. Patrons of this fine drinking establishment claim you aren't a real astronaut until your photo is on the tavern wall, not hanging in the Space Center gallery.
Furthermore, rumor has it many an astronaut open a tab here after they finish their training, and then return to have a final beer (and close the tab) when they return from space.
The walls are covered with space memorabilia, autographed head shots, and plenty of spacesuits hang above the pool table. Plus they have a shuffleboard table! Sweet. We bet spending an afternoon here might give you some incite into what went on behind the scenes with Oefelein, Shipman and Norwak.
[Photo: sikeri]
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