“Three of those people were in my class, that I knew very well. “It’s devastating for everybody, and when it’s friends, people that you know, it’s even harder,” Nowak told NASA in a pre-mission interview in 2006. Friends and family said Nowak was deeply affected by the 2003 Columbiashuttle explosion, in which one of her best friends, Laurel Clark, died. According to friends and family, Nowak was a dedicated mother and wife, who would have neighbors over for Easter brunches, and whose hobbies included bicycling, growing African violets and collecting rubber stamps. In 1996, Nowak was selected to be an astronaut at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, qualifying as a mission specialist in robotics. Naval Academy in Annapolis, and in 1985 she graduated with a Bachelor of Science in aerospace engineering. Raised in Maryland, Nowak entered the U.S. Lisa Marie Nowak was born on May 10, 1963, in Washington, D.C. Mission Specialist Lisa Nowak speaks at a post mission press conference Jat Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
While Lucy in the Sky does reflect some major events in Nowak’s life, the film uses her strange real-life downfall more as a backdrop to a larger story about the psychological effects of space travel on astronauts-similar to what Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin has described experiencing upon his return to Earth following his famous mission to the moon. Fueled by jealousy and rage, Lucy is driven to madness when her NASA colleagues deny her an opportunity to participate in an upcoming mission. When things begin to fall apart professionally and personally for Lucy, she falls into an epic spiral that lands her in police custody. Lucy becomes obsessed with returning to space and becomes entangled in an affair with a handsome co-worker played by Jon Hamm. Lucy in the Sky, the big-screen directorial debut of Fargo and Legion showrunner Noah Hawley, follows the downfall of the fictional astronaut Lucy Cola, who upon returning to earth from a space mission feels discontented with the smallness of her normal life.
The film is loosely inspired by the life of NASA astronaut Lisa Nowak, who was widely reported to have worn a diaper on a 14-hour cross country drive to confront the new flame of her former lover, becoming the first astronaut ever to be arrested.
4 following its September premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. That story is the inspiration for Lucy in the Sky, a new film starring Natalie Portman which hits theaters Oct. In 2007 the world was captivated by the sensational details surrounding an “astronaut love triangle”- turning the story into a media spectacle.
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