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Lisa Novak would achieve notoriety in 2007 when, on 5 February, she was arrested for an attempted kidnap and battery of Air Force Captain Colleen Shipman . Novak was having an affair with fellow astronaut William Oefelein , who was in turn having a relationship with Shipman. Novak’s assignment to NASA was curtailed on 7 March 2007. In November 2009 she pleaded guilty in the civil court and was sentenced to a year’s probation. In July 2011 she was demoted from Navy Captain to Commander and discharged in “other than honourable conditions”.
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Gabrielle Giffords would be shot in an attempted assassination on 8 January 2011 in Casas Adobes, Arizona , while speaking at an event. Nineteen people were injured and six were killed. Although she returned to Congress, she resigned in 2011 in order to concentrate on her recovery.
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Anousheh Ansari was the Iranian-born American telecommunications entrepreneur who sponsored the $10 million Ansari X Prize that was won when SpaceShipOne reached space twice in two weeks during suborbital flights in 2004.
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In March 1995 Soyuz TM-21 was delivering three cosmonauts (including NASA’s Norman Thagard ) to the Mir space station while Space Shuttle Endeavour was flying the STS-67 mission. The three Expedition 17 crew on Mir made it thirteen people in space for the first time.
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The first in-space voting was by David Wolf aboard the Mir space station in 1997.
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O’Sullivan, J. (2016). Astrolab. In: In the Footsteps of Columbus. Springer Praxis Books(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-27562-8_11
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