Article: 'Wacky astronaut' image gets makeover

ORLANDO, Fla. -- Not so long ago, nobody would speak for Lisa Nowak.

Accusations that the former astronaut had made a diaper- assisted, 1,000-mile drive to confront a woman vying for the affections of the same space shuttle pilot turned into water-cooler and late-night TV punchlines. She had devolved from a decorated Navy captain into a sad, frantic mess at the end of a jailhouse camera lens.

Her defense attorneys, led by Donald Lykkebak, and a New York public relations consultant are pushing hard to change that image -- with methodical steps to portray the 44-year-old as a well-meaning mother of three who just had a bad, temporarily insane day.

Lykkebak asked a judge at a pretrial hearing ...

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