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Article: 'Wacky astronaut' image gets makeover
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- September 20, 2007
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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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