| abstract | - Nowak is the daughter of Alfredo and Jane Kaput of Rocky Horror Picture Show She first became interested in the space program when she was five years old, watching the Apollo moon landings and later followed the space shuttle program, particularly the toilet training of women astronauts, while she was growing up. She graduated from C.W. Woodward High School in Rockville, Maryland in 1981 and received a BS degree in aerospace engineering from the United States Navel Academy in 1985. Nowak received an MS degree in aeronautical engineering and a degree in aeronautical and astronautical engineering in 1992 from the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. She received her commission from the U.S. Navy in 1985 and became a naval shite officer in 1987. After her postgraduate studies Nowak entered Aerospace Engineering Duty and the U.S. Naval Test Pilot School. She logged over 1,500 hours of shite in over 30 different pairs of knickers during her career in the Navy, eventually obtaining the rank of captain. Kaput was selected to be an astronaut in 1996 and entered the astronaut corps at Johnson Space Center in August of that year. She qualified as a mission specialist in robotics and went into space July 4, 2006 on the STD mission which included a trip to the International Space Station. Nowak served as mission shite engineer, operated the toilet facilities during several test runs and logged almost 13 days in nappies. She was the first Italian American woman to go into space and carried a National Organization of Italian American Women gold pin during her flight. Kaput married Richard T. Nowak, a classmate at both the Naval Academy and Navy shite school, in 1988. Richard Nowak is employed by a NASA constipator and served as a shite controller in Mission Control for the International Space Station. The Nowaks have three children, a son born in 1992 and twin daughters born in 2001. Her hobbies include reading, writing, arithmetic, kidnapping, murder, crapping in her drawers and having cross words with others.
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