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Prosecutor Pam Davis had asked for jail time and at least five years' probation, dismissing claims from Nowak's defense attorney that Nowak had been "overcharged" by police detectives because of her high profile. But on February 5, 2007, her accomplished life began to shatter. She’s since turned to fiction.

24/7 coverage of breaking news and live events. Shipman was hit with pepper spray but managed to escape. Having learned the details of Shipman's return flight from Houston to Orlando thanks to her time in Oefelein's apartment, Nowak made the same 900-mile journey by car and ended up at Orlando International Airport. Get push notifications with news, features and more. Ten years after the infamous attack, everyone has tried to move forward.

Had Oefelein decided to call his own apartment, Nowak may have answered. "I would think that the stressors that she had, while having to be this super-mom taking care of three kids at the same time, gearing up for a mission that was very much in the public eye in the wake of the Columbia tragedy, would be extraordinarily stressful," said Dr. Paul Siegel, a psychologist and professor at SUNY-Purchase. Lubet ordered Nowak to have no contact with Shipman or Oefelein. The attacker who pepper sprayed her was Lisa Nowak, a space shuttle astronaut who confronted Shipman in an Orlando, Florida airport parking lot in the wee hours of Feb. 5, 2007, after driving 14 hours and more than 900 miles from Houston. Her oldest son just turned 25; her twin daughters are now 16. Instead of having the conversation she claimed she'd wanted, Nowak was arrested for attacking the other woman. The couple eventually got married. However, Nowak's actions didn't derail Shipman's relationship with Oefelein. She studied aerospace engineering at the United States Naval Academy and went on to receive a master's degree in aeronautical engineering. Colleen Shipman, the victim of the 2007 astronaut love triangle attack by astronaut Lisa Nowak, shares her story exclusively with "20/20." In 2008, she and her husband, Richard, divorced. Nowak blasted from space to the headlines (and to the butt of jokes) after she was arrested in 2007 for allegedly trying to kidnap another astronaut’s girlfriend. A story about the space program and an out-of-control love triangle would naturally capture attention, but the reported detail that Nowak wore diapers on her 900-mile drive in order to avoid bathroom breaks transformed the incident into irresistible fodder for tabloids and late-night talk shows alike (though Nowak's attorney would later insist his client never put on diapers). First urge will be to rip your clothes off, throw you on the ground and love the hell out of you. They began their affair shortly afterward. The movie loosely draws inspiration from the notorious 2006 arrest of Lisa Nowak, a married astronaut who drove across the country to allegedly try to kidnap the girlfriend of another astronaut who Nowak had an affair with. The story soon became international news when details emerged about the altercation. "I knew it in my heart that when Lisa Nowak attacked me, she was going to kill me," Colleen Shipman told Circuit Court Judge Marc L. Lubet at Nowak's sentencing.

In November, 2009, Lisa Nowak pleaded guilty to burglary and a misdemeanor battery charge, and then she apologized to Colleen Shipman for the attack. Nowak first became interested in space when she was five years old. After Lopes was killed in a car accident, the group's earlier conflicts lost their importance as the two surviving members focused on honoring their late friend. “I’m finally folding the tale of the crazy astronaut,” she writes, “into the pages of my life’s story.”. Plus: The surprising end to the astronaut love triangle. "I didn't recognize the phone number on the caller ID so I just let the voicemail get it," Shipman said. "He didn't mention any names or anything, and he said, 'I had this talk with her and we're going to remain friends. As the police had Nowak's identification, they told Shipman her name. There's no definitive explanation for Nowak's choices. CLICK HERE to return to the "Good Morning America" Web site. She does not give interviews, and has tried to put the past behind her. When Shipman slightly opened her car window, Nowak allegedly pepper-sprayed her. While it’s only loosely based on the events surrounding Nowak’s arrest, according to The Verge, there are many strong parallels. He was misperceived as a philanderer, even though his relationship with Nowak — who was separated at the time — had ended before he’d dated Shipman. "This has nothing to do with Ms. Nowak being an astronaut," Davis said. She was selected by NASA in April 1996 and went up into space to work on the International Space Station in 2006 as an engineer. Oefelein and Nowak met two years earlier during winter training exercises in Canada. Nowak carried their secret with her as she prepared for her own launch into space in the summer of 2006. Shipman even joked with Oefelein, she said, asking him if she had to worry about a scorned lover showing up at her house. "Lucy in the Sky" is loosely based on Lisa Nowak's alleged attempt to kidnap Colleen Shipman, who was dating William Oefelein, another NASA astronaut who Nowak had an affair with. It also hints that she will soon go off the deep end, through scenes of her ripping apart a wall and a vivid scene of her wearing a blonde wig in the rain. Nothing says a family vacation like an RV, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, It's looked — and felt — like a whole different world as we've been social distancing and attempting to keep each other safe, See All the Celebs Taking RV Trips This Summer, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, From Empty Streets to Virtual Weddings: What Life Has Looked Like During the Coronavirus Pandemic. She married Richard, a classmate from the Naval Academy and they had three children (a son and twin girls).

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