11/10/2022 0 Comments Challenger space shuttle![]() ![]() To wit:īorn on May 19, 1939, Commander Francis Richard Scobee was 46 when he died in the Challenger explosion. This exercise is an amusing example of how easy it is to weave a compelling conspiracy theory out of a few suggestive elements, but its premise defies credulity: NASA faked (for no explicable reason) the deaths of seven astronauts in a catostrophic shuttle accident, then allowed those astronauts to openly live out the rest of their lives back home without even taking the basic steps of disguising their physical appearances or real names - and nobody noticed it until nearly 30 years later.Īll this conspiracy exercise really demonstrates is that you can sometimes find two people with the same name who bear a passing resemblance to each other. You don’t have to be an expert in mathematics to know that those odds defy statistical probability. Smith, Judith Resnick, Sharon McAuliffe). Itâ?s another thing entirely that SIX members of the Challenger crew have doppelgängers who are alive, in some cases with exactly the same names (Richard Scobee, Michael J. For that, we can chalk it up to a coincidence. ![]() It’s one thing that one of the Challenger’s crew members resembles someone alive today. What if I were to tell you that most, if not all, of Challenger’s 7 crew members are still alive and thriving in their new professions, contrary to what we’ve been told? Nearly thirty years later, in May 2015, the online world contemplated a conspiracy rumor questioning whether the Challenger crew was in fact still alive, as evidenced by the fact that persons resembling those original crew members (at the approximate ages they would be now), and bearing similar or identical names, are still living and working in the United States: (Dick) Scobee, mission commander Ronald E. Killed in that accident were Teacher-in-Space payload specialist Sharon Christa McAuliffe payload specialist Gregory Jarvis and astronauts Judith A. NASA believed the two barnacle-encrusted fragments, one measuring more than 6 feet wide and 13 feet long, were originally connected, and that they came from the shuttle’s left wing flap.On the morning of 28 January 1986, NASA lost its first astronauts to an in-space accident when all seven members of the Space Shuttle Challenger crew were lost when a booster engine failed and caused the Challenger to break apart just 73 seconds after launch. Though all of the important pieces of the shuttle were retrieved by the time NASA closed its Challenger investigation in 1986, most of the spacecraft remained in the Atlantic Ocean.Ī decade later, memories of the disaster resurfaced when two large pieces of the Challenger washed up in the surf at Cocoa Beach, 20 miles south of the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral. In March 1986, the remains of the astronauts were found in the debris of the crew cabin. ![]() ![]() Within a day of the shuttle tragedy, salvage operations recovered hundreds of pounds of metal from the Challenger. More than a decade after the Challenger disaster, two large pieces from the spacecraft washed ashore at a local beach. Of the Challenger astronauts, Reagan said: “We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’” 5. Widely regarded as one of the best speeches of his presidency, the 650-word address ended with a moving quote from the poem “High Flight,” by the American pilot John McGee Jr., who was killed while flying for the Royal Canadian Air Force in World War II. In the aftermath of the tragedy, Reagan postponed his annual message to the nation (the first, and so far only, time in history a president has done so) and addressed the nation about the Challenger instead. ![]()
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