Troubled NASA shuttle astronaut and U.S. Navy Capt. Lisa Nowak said that, in the long run, her children would look at her astronaut career in "a very positive light," in a magazine interview last September.
Nowak was arrested earlier this week on charges that she tried to kidnap and murder a NASA engineer she believed was her rival for another space shuttle pilot's romantic attention.
The interview was conducted last September for Ladies Home Journal magazine.
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In the article, Nowak describes her childhood, her family and the risks of being first a Navy test pilot and later an astronaut. She described her husband, Richard, a NASA flight controller, and her three children as "supportive" of her astronaut career.
In the magazine Nowak says that she loved to compete as a child in sports and academics.
"Competitive, determined, energetic," Nowak told Ladies Home Journal. "Those are probably good words to describe me as a kid."
Nowak said that she didn't consider her job to be particularly dangerous or risky. "Actually, I'm more worried about driving on the highway," she said.
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