Couple in Astronaut Love Triangle Case to Wed

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Couple in Astronaut Love Triangle Case to Wed
Astronaut William Oefelein, STS-116 pilot, moves a stowage bag through the Destiny laboratory of the International Space Station while Space Shuttle Discovery was docked with the station. (Image credit: NASA.)

A couple involved in aninfamous love triangle are getting married.

The Beaver County Timesreceived an engagement announcement from the parents of Colleen Shipman. Sheand formerastronaut William Oefelein plan a summer 2010 wedding in Shipman?shometown, just outside of Pittsburgh.

Nowak later told police thatshe only wanted to talk to Shipman.
However, she was wearing a wig, trench coat and glasses, and was carrying aduffel bag filled with a bb pistol, four-inch hunting knife, rubber mallet,surgical tubing, latex gloves and garbage bags. She had also followed Shipmanaround the airport for nearly two hours as Shipman waited for her luggage toarrive.

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Kimberley C. Moore
Contributing Writer

Kimberley is a former contributing writer for Space.com covering the Lisa Nowak trial who is now a multimedia journalist with the nonprofit online news agency lkldnow.com, which serves the community of Lakeland, Florida. A graduate of Florida State University, she was also a senior reporter for Gannett’s USA Today and also wrote the non-fiction books, Star Crossed: The Story of Astronaut Lisa Nowak and The Book of Tom: A True Story of Life After Death.