Outer-Space Scandals: Astronauts’ Shocking Secrets
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If you think all America’s astronauts are high-flying heroes, think again — because The National ENQUIRER can now expose them as a bunch of astro-nuts!
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Lust in Space! NASA frowns on the 500-mile-high club, but Jan Davis and Mark Lee outsmarted the agency with their under-the-radar romance.
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The sweethearts hooked up at training camp and secretly got hitched so close to launch time, NASA had no choice but to allow the first married couple in space for the Sept. 12–20, 1992 space shuttle mission. This was some honeymoon trip!
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The Diaper-naut! William Oefelein and Lisa Nowak got cozy during their 2006 space shuttle mission, but their romance soon crashed and burned.
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When he rebounded with Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman a year later, Nowak (above) — rocket-fueled by jealousy — sped 900 miles to confront her ex’s new lady, wearing a diaper to avoid stopping for bathroom breaks! After pepper-spraying Colleen in a Florida parking lot, Nowak was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping, but pled guilty to lesser charges after spending two days in jail.
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Sky-High Hijinks Walking on the moon must not have paid well enough for Edgar Mitchell. He brought 55 postal covers along on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, with at least one of the stamped envelopes later selling for $4,200! The package included his autograph and a letter of authenticity.
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But Edgar didn’t stop there. In the 1990s he caused a buzz by claiming UFOs are real! And in 2011 the federal government sued him after learning he tried to auction off the camera used on the historic moon-walking mission.
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Moon Monkey Monkeys preceded humans into space, which must have impressed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin enough to give his first wife, Joan, a chimp as a Christmas present. Unfortunately, the simian would snarl, hoot and make obscene gestures, terrifying the poor woman.
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But Buzz, famous for setting foot on the moon after Neil Armstrong, had sunk into a booze-soaked depression after his historic 1969 mission. At her wits end, Joan demanded that Buzz choose between her and the monkey — and they soon divorced!
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Cash Landing Pioneering U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager — who broke the sound barrier in 1947, a key step in making the space program possible — became embroiled in a bitter legal battle with his adult children, whom he accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from him.
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The brawl erupted in the mid-2000s when his four kids accused Chuck’s second wife — Victoria Scott D’Angelo (left), 41 years his junior — of marrying him for his money. But a California court ruled in favor of Chuck, determining that his daughter Susan had breached her duties as a trustee overseeing his fortune.
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Cape Cookies With their wives left behind in Texas, astronauts had their pick of “Cape Cookies,” the gals who prowled Cocoa Beach, near Cape Canaveral, hoping to hook up with horn-dog space cowboys. The worst offenders were Alan Shepard, Dick Gordon (left) and Pete Conrad, collectively known as the “Go-Go Crew.”
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The trio drove matching gold Corvettes and wore their blue flight suits during their hard-partying missions. Shepard (left, with Conrad) especially stood out for attending swingers’ parties and reportedly picking up a hooker in a Mexican border town during a NASA trip, before going on a 1961 mission!
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Celestial Split The first “space divorce” occurred when the wife of Donn Eisele, command pilot of the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, filed for divorce while he wasn’t even on the planet.
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His long-suffering spouse, Harriet (seated, far left, among early astronaut wives), had patiently done her patriotic duty, putting up with Donn’s skirt-chasing. When she’d finally had enough, she accused Donn of infidelity. He said she was crazy, so she threatened to see a psychiatrist. Donn’s reply? “You can’t, I’ll lose my job.” She saw a lawyer instead!
If you think all America’s astronauts are high-flying heroes, think again — because The National ENQUIRER can now expose them as a bunch of astro-nuts!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Lust in Space! NASA frowns on the 500-mile-high club, but Jan Davis and Mark Lee outsmarted the agency with their under-the-radar romance.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The sweethearts hooked up at training camp and secretly got hitched so close to launch time, NASA had no choice but to allow the first married couple in space for the Sept. 12–20, 1992 space shuttle mission. This was some honeymoon trip!
Photo credit: Getty Images
The Diaper-naut! William Oefelein and Lisa Nowak got cozy during their 2006 space shuttle mission, but their romance soon crashed and burned.
Photo credit: Getty Images
When he rebounded with Air Force Capt. Colleen Shipman a year later, Nowak (above) — rocket-fueled by jealousy — sped 900 miles to confront her ex’s new lady, wearing a diaper to avoid stopping for bathroom breaks! After pepper-spraying Colleen in a Florida parking lot, Nowak was charged with attempted murder and kidnapping, but pled guilty to lesser charges after spending two days in jail.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Sky-High Hijinks Walking on the moon must not have paid well enough for Edgar Mitchell. He brought 55 postal covers along on the 1971 Apollo 14 mission, with at least one of the stamped envelopes later selling for $4,200! The package included his autograph and a letter of authenticity.
Photo credit: Getty Images
But Edgar didn’t stop there. In the 1990s he caused a buzz by claiming UFOs are real! And in 2011 the federal government sued him after learning he tried to auction off the camera used on the historic moon-walking mission.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Moon Monkey Monkeys preceded humans into space, which must have impressed Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin enough to give his first wife, Joan, a chimp as a Christmas present. Unfortunately, the simian would snarl, hoot and make obscene gestures, terrifying the poor woman.
Photo credit: Getty Images
But Buzz, famous for setting foot on the moon after Neil Armstrong, had sunk into a booze-soaked depression after his historic 1969 mission. At her wits end, Joan demanded that Buzz choose between her and the monkey — and they soon divorced!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Cash Landing Pioneering U.S. Air Force test pilot Chuck Yeager — who broke the sound barrier in 1947, a key step in making the space program possible — became embroiled in a bitter legal battle with his adult children, whom he accused of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from him.
Photo credit: Getty Images
The brawl erupted in the mid-2000s when his four kids accused Chuck’s second wife — Victoria Scott D’Angelo (left), 41 years his junior — of marrying him for his money. But a California court ruled in favor of Chuck, determining that his daughter Susan had breached her duties as a trustee overseeing his fortune.
Photo credit: Getty Images
Cape Cookies With their wives left behind in Texas, astronauts had their pick of “Cape Cookies,” the gals who prowled Cocoa Beach, near Cape Canaveral, hoping to hook up with horn-dog space cowboys. The worst offenders were Alan Shepard, Dick Gordon (left) and Pete Conrad, collectively known as the “Go-Go Crew.”
Photo credit: Getty Images
The trio drove matching gold Corvettes and wore their blue flight suits during their hard-partying missions. Shepard (left, with Conrad) especially stood out for attending swingers’ parties and reportedly picking up a hooker in a Mexican border town during a NASA trip, before going on a 1961 mission!
Photo credit: Getty Images
Celestial Split The first “space divorce” occurred when the wife of Donn Eisele, command pilot of the 1968 Apollo 7 mission, filed for divorce while he wasn’t even on the planet.
Photo credit: Getty Images
His long-suffering spouse, Harriet (seated, far left, among early astronaut wives), had patiently done her patriotic duty, putting up with Donn’s skirt-chasing. When she’d finally had enough, she accused Donn of infidelity. He said she was crazy, so she threatened to see a psychiatrist. Donn’s reply? “You can’t, I’ll lose my job.” She saw a lawyer instead!
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