Inside the Haunting Obsession That Inspired Lucy in the Sky
Natalie Portman does not play Lisa Nowak.
In Lucy in the Sky, she plays a married astronaut who, upon her return to Earth after a mission, has an affair with a fellow astronaut, played by Jon Hamm, and becomes increasingly unhinged when he moves on to someone else.
But that's a reminiscent outline of what happened to Nowak, an accomplished Nasa astronaut who in 2007 packed her car with the sort of items that would raise suspicion, put on an adult diaper—the kind the astronauts wear in space—and embarked on a 950-mile drive to confront her ex-lover's new girlfriend.
Nowak's fate, as far as eternal notoriety goes, was sealed the second the word...
