4.4 • 737 Ratings
🗓️ 1 December 2019
⏱️ 46 minutes
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A woman spends her life dreaming, training, and preparing to travel into space. After she achieves her goal, the NASA astronaut’s life falls apart when she is arrested while stalking her ex-boyfriend's new lover, and law enforcement discover a kill kit in her possession.
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0:00.0 | This podcast contains adult themes and graphic violence. |
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0:07.1 | A commercial-free version of this podcast is available on Patreon for $1 a month. |
0:12.4 | Patreon.com forward slash Beyond Contempt Podcast. |
0:16.5 | I'm Renee, and this is Beyond Contempt True Crime. |
0:40.7 | I have little to say about this episode, except I've wanted to cover it for a while now, |
0:43.8 | and sometimes it's just nice to take a break for murder. |
0:48.1 | You're listening to Episode 14, Lisa Nowak. |
0:55.2 | In 1962, NASA had been contemplating putting women in space. |
0:59.7 | John Glenn, who was the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth, |
1:04.9 | strongly opposed the idea of women in space, and spoke out at a congressional meeting. |
1:10.0 | He said that men designed, build, and then fly airplanes into war. Women were not a part of the |
1:12.2 | aeronautics field, because it was just the social order of the way we organized life. So at that |
1:18.2 | point in time, they banned women from becoming astronauts in the United States. On May 10, 1963, |
1:26.7 | the Rockville-Maryland couple, Alfredo and Jane Caputo, brought their first of three daughters, Lisa Caputo, into the world. |
1:35.8 | A few weeks later, Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova would step onto the Vostak Six and perform a three-day solo space mission. |
1:46.4 | She was the first woman to travel into space. |
1:49.6 | Lisa's parents didn't realize it yet, |
1:51.8 | but Valentina's expedition would have a significant impact on their firstborn |
1:55.8 | and created a new career path that had not been open to women before. |
2:01.2 | In 1969, Neil Armstrong uttered the words, |
2:05.3 | The Eagle has landed over NASA's communication system, |
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