You can't beat life ...

I wrote recently about Stephen Harrigan's "Challenger Park", an excellent book about astronaut life at the Johnson Space Center. It had all the intrigue of regular life: soccer moms, kids with asthma, faith crisis, affairs and the like.

And now today the news is littered with "Lust in Space" stories of a jealous astronaut -- married with three kids -- who tracks down the alleged suitor of the object of her affection, another astronaut, in a love triangle of some sort. She was arrested for attempted kidnapping and then charged with attempted murder.

Harrigan couldn't dream this stuff up.