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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.

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.