50 Top 10 Lists of 2007

Top 10 Scandals

#7. NASA Love Triangle

It was definitely the diapers. When Lisa Nowak was arrested in Orlando in February and accused of trying to kidnap a fellow astronaut's girlfriend, police found a steel mallet, knife, latex gloves and rubber tubing in her car, but what vaulted her into the upper stratosphere of infamy was the diapers she reportedly told police she used to reduce the number of pit stops on her 900-mile drive from Houston. (She now denies wearing the diapers.) Nowak, who pleaded not guilty, was dismissed from the astronaut corps as was her former paramour. Her trial is ongoing.

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