nasa gets its diapers in a knot

"This is our independence day!" The movie proclaimed and then we sent the Fresh Prince and the Fly to save us from the alien force (not to be confused with the alien workforce). In the end they triumphed, a dazzling victory, and instantaneously boosted NASA budgets, reported to be a staggering $17 billion this year.

Then you read this on the CNN website, you re-read it and then you check that the site has not been phished and that you are not actually at The Onion. Yeah sometimes reality can be stranger than fiction, it almost makes it highly plausible that the Fresh Prince and the Fly could indeed save planet earth.

I suggest that you go and read the entire report about this comical NASA astronaut love triangle, from wigs to diapers, it's beyond surreal.

...They also found a wig and a plastic bag containing a carbon
dioxide-powered BB pistol in a nearby trash can, the report said.

Inside a bag Nowak was carrying, the officer found a tan
trench coat, a new steel mallet, a new folding knife with a 4-inch blade, 3 to 4
feet of rubber tubing, several large plastic garbage bags and about $600 in
cash, the report said.

Nowak admitted the details of Shipman's story, according
to the police report, and permitted a search of her car.

Inside the car, police found an a half dozen latex gloves,
MapQuest directions from Houston to Orlando International Airport, e-mails from
Shipman to Oefelein, diapers Nowak said she wore to reduce stops along the highway and a letter indicating how much she loved Oefelein.
It is standard
procedure for astronauts to wear diapers when they suit up for launch and
re-entry...CNN

And now back to a somewhat more mundane reality.