Astronaut Lisa Nowak was relieved of her duties at NASA and transferred back to the U.S. Navy following her arrest in Florida.
She had been accused of taking part in a love triangle, which lead her to stalk and threaten the other woman. Authorities charged her with attempted kidnapping.
NASA has no policy on what to do in the event of a case like this, so they transferred her back to the Navy, which deals with this kind of stuff on a more regular basis. In effect, they canned her.
She will be facing charges in a civilian court and probably in a JAG court too.
Hopefully NASA will develop policies to deal with stuff like this; it probably will happen again. While they've dealt with the current situation, what happens when something like this happens between civilian workers, and not military ones?
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