At 11:38 a.m. EST, on January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Florida, and Christa McAuliffe is on her way to becoming the first ordinary U.S. civilian to travel into space. McAuliffe, a 37-year-old high school social studies teacher from New Hampshire, won a competition that earned her a place among the seven-member crew of the Challenger. She underwent months of shuttle training but then, beginning January 23, was forced to wait six long days as the Challenger‘s launch countdown was repeatedly delayed because of weather and technical problems. Finally, on January 28, the shuttle lifted off.
Seventy-three seconds later, hundreds on the ground, including Christa’s family, stared in disbelief as the shuttle broke up in a forking plume of smoke and fire. Millions more watched the wrenching tragedy unfold on live television. There were no survivors.
In 1976, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) unveiled the world’s first reusable manned spacecraft, the Enterprise. Five years later, space flights of the shuttle began when Columbia traveled into space on a 54-hour mission. Launched by two solid-rocket boosters and an external tank, only the aircraft-like shuttle entered into orbit around Earth. When the mission was completed, the shuttle fired engines to reduce speed and, after descending through the atmosphere, landed like a glider. Early shuttles took satellite equipment into space and carried out various scientific experiments. The Challenger disaster was the first major shuttle accident.
In the aftermath of the disaster, President Ronald Reagan appointed a special commission to determine what went wrong with Challenger and to develop future corrective measures. The presidential commission was headed by former secretary of state William Rogers, and included former astronaut Neil Armstrong and former test pilot Chuck Yeager. The investigation determined that the disaster was caused by the failure of an “O-ring” seal in one of the two solid-fuel rockets. The elastic O-ring did not respond as expected because of the cold temperature at launch time, which began a chain of events that resulted in the massive loss. As a result, NASA did not send astronauts into space for more than two years as it redesigned a number of features of the space shuttle.
In September 1988, space shuttle flights resumed with the successful launching of the Discovery. Since then, the space shuttle has carried out numerous important missions, such as the repair and maintenance of the Hubble Space Telescope and the construction of the International Space Station.
On February 1, 2003, a second space-shuttle disaster rocked the United States when Columbia disintegrated upon reentry of the Earth’s atmosphere. All aboard were killed. Despite fears that the problems that downed Columbia had not been satisfactorily addressed, space-shuttle flights resumed on July 26, 2005, when Discovery was again put into orbit.
The Space Shuttle program formally ended on August 31, 2011 after its final mission, STS-135 flown by Atlantis, in July 2011.
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“The presidential commission was headed by former secretary of state William Rogers, and included former astronaut Neil Armstrong and former test pilot Chuck Yeager.”
And, rather critically, Astronaut Sally Ride, Air Force General Donald Kutyna and Physicist Richard Feynman.
Special mention to Morton-Thiokol Engineer Allen McDonald who put his entire career at risk with his testimony to the commission. It took an act of congress to save it.
Six of the seven astronauts are still alive and were not in the Space Shuttle.
Space Shuttle Challenger: STS-51-L was The was the 25th mission of the United States Space Shuttle program. There were 7 astronauts onboard. January 28, 1986.
Official Version: The Challenger orbiter broke apart 72 seconds after launch due to the explosion of the fuel tank, which was caused by a leaky O-ring on the starboard solid fuel booster. The astronauts, Scobee, Resnik, Onizuka, McNair, Smith, McAuliffe, and Jarvis died upon impact with the ocean at 245 MPH.
The Truth: The Space Shuttle program was sold to the public in the 1970s as a civilian program by NASA. When the first shuttles were under construction, it became apparent that the $3 billion dollar program was going to run into $8 billion or more. NASA debated cancelling the project. The Defense Department agreed to fund much of the construction of the first 4 orbiters. The program became a military project, masquerading as a civilian project.
Note, that on many missions, there were “mission specialists” that only flew once, or twice. The mission specialists were military personnel or military contractors who were performing testing, experiments, photography, or observations for the military. There were several publicized military missions for the purpose of placing classified payloads in orbit (KH spy satellites).
When astronauts train for a flight, a simulator is used, and the flight is rehearsed ad nauseam and recorded. The recordings can then be played for the public and represented as “live”, when in fact the astronauts are conducting other activities, or not even aboard the orbiter. Live TV interviews would be shot in the simulator at NASA.
This was the plan for STS-51-L. The 7 person crew that was publicly presented as the flight crew, including the “Teacher in Space” Christa McAuliffe, were window dressing. The real crew was a classified military crew, 6 men or women, and Gregory Jarvis. Jarvis was military, and the original mission specialist assigned with the proxy crew.
When the orbiter broke up and landed in the ocean, NASA had to either come clean on the proxy crew, or cover it up. Naturally, the Defense Department insisted on maintaining the secret of their deep involvement. But what to do with the 6 crew still alive? Capricorn 1 them?
I assume that the families of the proxy astronauts knew of the swap before hand, so unless NASA or DOD was prepared to off the entire families of the proxies, they had no choice but to keep them alive. I bet there were some tense moments among the proxy crew when they saw the disaster, a combination of relief at not being on the orbiter, as well as apprehension about what would happen to them.
Well, the 6 astronauts are not listed on the Social Security Death Data Base. So, believe it or not, they are still alive:
Ellison Onizuka now presents himself as his “identical twin brother” Claud. Ancestry.com does not have any entry for anyone with this name. Here is a YouTube of “Claude Onizuka”:
Michael J Smith is now Professor Smith, and was teaching at the Univ of Wisconsin as late as 2018. Reportedly his email address is [email protected]
Christa McAuliffe, who used her middle name, is now using her real name: Sharon A. McAuliffe. She is a law professor at Syracuse U. of Law. https://www.linkedin.com/in/sharon-a-mcauliffe-048281b/
Francis Richard Scobee, the commander, is now going by Richard Scobee, the CEO of Cows to Trees, Ltd. IT has something to do with the Photosynthesis-Respiration/CO2 cycle. Here is his linkedIn profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/richard-scobee-23875418/
Judith Resnik, is a Professor at Yale Law. https://law.yale.edu/judith-resnik
Ronald McNair is now living as his “identical twin brother” Carl. His profile lists him as: Author/Inspirational Speaker/ Diversity in the Space Program Presenter (NASA)/ STEM Education Advocate. https://www.linkedin.com/in/carl-s-mcnair-7ab9a15/
This YouTube video has pictures of the astronauts then and now:
What was the real mission of STS 51-L? Perhaps we will never know. The mission was supposed to deploy a NASA relay/communication satellite and deploy another for observation of Halley’s Comet. Seems innocuous enough. The military mission would have had to deploy these sats, as their absence would have been obvious. Neither sat is very large, and the orbiter would have had physical storage space in the cargo bay, and additional mass allowance for more cargo.
There are three possibilities for a covert military mission:
1) At the time, the Soviets had an active military space station, Salyut 7, in orbit. It was unoccupied at that time having been vacated on Nov 21, 1985; and would not be reoccupied until May 6, 1986. The US and the USSR were still in the Cold War. It would have been an excellent opportunity for a spy mission, sabotage mission, or sending over a friendly little space mine.
2) President Reagan’s SDI program was now two years old. Testing is an important part of any new project. The orbiter may have carried components that were to be tested while exposed to the rigors of launch, space and space travel; or to be used as a target and/or observer for a land based weapon.
3) The orbiter could have been setup to service or repair one of the KH-11 spy satellites. These are billion dollar satellites. There were two previous DOD missions with classified cargo, and a prior mission to service a satellite. The second mission launched after the 2 year shutdown, was a classified DOD mission. Was this to perform whatever task this mission did not perform? In subsequent missions, the orbiter is used to deploy the KH-12.
Maybe the “identical twin brother” of Onizuka or McNair will post in the comments below and let us know. It has been 35 years, so surely there are no remaining facts worth keeping secret. The USSR is gone, as is the SDI program.
While it may be possible that all 6 of these astronauts had identical twins, or doppelgangers with the same or similar names, if only one of these astronauts turns out to be alive and not killed in the disaster, it proves the deception of DOD and NASA. The American people deserve an explanation.
That was an excellent komment kalbo!
Sharon Tate is now Debra Tate.
The game is old.
And Charles Manson and his crew of defective criminals killed her, too …
The entire Manson murder story was an operation that was ran to kill the peace movement.
Looking for Jimmy Hoffa and Jeffrey Epstein.
How did you learn what actually happened? What made you investigate? Like most people, I took the official story at face value. Guess I really don’t have an inquiring mind most of the time.
Many years ago I was at a dinner with some former NASA engineers. When the Shuttle disaster of ’86 came up in conversation, I remember one of us said ‘well at least they all died instantly when the main tank exploded’. The NASA engineer said ‘no, they survived all the way down to impact-there’s an audio recording of this, and it will never be released to the public’. The table went quiet as we thought about the horror these people experienced as they plunged to certain death.
Blacked out first??
No one died.
It was a symbolic sacrifice.
The challenger shuttle was not manned or womaned.
It was a test of DEWs. I watched it as it happened on a huge for the time TV at eye level up close and seen the hot spots well away from any joints, and just as I thought “they are shooting the shuttle with an energy beam (particle),” it blew up. I have never seen that close up footage again despite spending some effort looking for it.
It was the only time that a Soviet military contingent was ever at nasa to watch a space lunch. Seven rockets after that were all destroyed during initial lift phase too, as what I think was a demonstration of repeatability.
So, who was demonstrating DEW capability- the US, or the Soviets?
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Truth in advertising.
Nasa in Hebrew = to lift up
When mankind accomplishes low earth manned orbits, it is considered a Great Tower of Babylon moment, and TPTB set in motion the Great Reset which would be more accurately called the Great Rugpull.
This is when they eliminate all education and send people back to tribalism and foraging.
Have you ever looked into the modern use of blimps, especially with drones?
It would take a lot of drones to lift that black blimp lezzo.
A tribute.
Wrong.
I listened to the blackbox recordings from the shuttle “disaster”
The last thing said on the recording tapes was Mcaulife asking “What does this button do?”
A joke isn’t funny unless it contains an element of truth. Your joke is not funny. Perhaps you should stick to gay jokes about King Charles, and blond chinese.
“A joke isn’t funny unless it contains an element of truth.”
You didn’t find any “elements of truth”?
Then you are a fucking retard and the joke went over your adolescent head.
Is that an “element of truth”?
Pissoff poofta!
The true purpose of the space shuttle was not to Go Where No Man Has Gone Before. It was to orbit diversity. At least trans wasn’t a thing back then.