Lisa Marie Nowak, seen here in a booking photo, was sentenced to a year on probation last November after pleading guilty to third-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor battery. (AP)
A Navy panel says the service should discharge former astronaut Lisa Nowak, who lost her NASA job over a bizarre airport attack on a romantic rival.
The panel made the recommendation Thursday after a daylong hearing at the Naval Air Station in Jacksonville.
The recommendation now goes to the Naval Personnel Command. A final decision will be made by the Secretary of the Navy.
The panel recommended downgrading Nowak from captain to commander and giving her a discharge of "other than honorable."
Nowak was sentenced to a year on probation last November after pleading guilty to third-degree felony burglary and misdemeanor battery.
Nowak confronted her romantic rival in the parking lot of Orlando International Airport in February 2007 after driving from Houston.
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