Mensen van rond de 40 zullen het zich ongetwijfeld nog wel herinneren. De Challenger (Space Shuttle) die met bemanning en al letterlijk de lucht in gaat.
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Schaamteloze copy/paste van wiki:
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OngevalChallenger desintegreert 73 seconden na de lancering
De Challenger desintegreerde 73 seconden na de lancering van zijn tiende vlucht STS-51-L op 28 januari 1986.
Hij werd onder geringe publieke belangstelling gelanceerd. De beelden werden later als 'live' herhaald, vlak na het ongeval, waardoor velen dachten de lancering op televisie live te zien gebeuren. Al tijdens de eerste seconden van de vlucht lekten er hete gassen uit de rechterstuwraket, door een defecte rubberen O-ring die de buitenste afdichting vormde tussen het onderste deel en de rest van de stuwraket. Deze O-ring was niet bestand tegen de lage temperatuur van 2 graden Celsius op het moment van de lancering.
OorzaakHierdoor lekten vrijwel meteen na de start hete gassen en brandstof uit de rechterstuwraket. Deze brandstof bevatte ook aluminium, voor extra motorvermogen tijdens de vlucht naar de ruimte. Het verbruik van aluminium leverde slakken op. Deze slakken kwamen in de scheur terecht, waardoor de scheur werd gedicht.
Na 58 seconden passeerde het ruimteveer een smalle luchtlaag met extreme windsnelheden. Een half uur voor de lancering vloog er nog een passagiersvliegtuig door deze luchtlaag, precies boven de lanceerplaats van de Challenger. Dit vliegtuig kwam in aanraking met een sterke windstroming van wel 300 kilometer per uur, nog harder dan de orkaan Katrina. Zo kwam dus ook de Challenger in deze luchtlaag terecht. Vermoedelijk raakten de slakken nu los door de grote windkrachten, waardoor er weer hete gassen en brandstof begonnen te lekken. De scheur werd groter. De hete gassen lekten tegen de onderzijde van de externe brandstoftank die daardoor 73 seconden na de lancering bezweek. De tank met vloeibaar waterstof verloor daardoor vrijwel zijn hele inhoud. Tegelijkertijd werd deze tank met grote kracht in de tank met vloeibaar zuurstof gedreven, waardoor ook deze laatste bezweek. De enorme hoeveelheden waterstof en zuurstof die vrijkwamen werden ontstoken door de uitlaatgassen van de stuwraketten en een zeer snelle verbranding volgde. In tegenstelling tot wat vaak genoemd wordt, was er echter geen sprake van een detonatie.
De officiële onderzoekscommissie die na de ramp door toenmalig president Ronald Reagan werd ingesteld, concludeerde dat de waterstof en zuurstof in een grote wolk weliswaar zeer snel verbrandden, maar dat van explosieve verbranding geen sprake was.
De Challenger bevond zich midden in het inferno van de verbrandende brandstoffen en werd uit elkaar gerukt. De cockpit kwam grotendeels intact uit de wolk verbrandende gassen tevoorschijn en viel ruim 16 kilometer omlaag om op het wateroppervlak van de Atlantische Oceaan uiteen te spatten. Daarbij stierf de hele bemanning. De restanten van de cockpit en de restanten van de zeven astronauten werden enkele weken na het ongeval gevonden op de oceaanbodem en geborgen. De stoffelijke resten van de astronauten werden via staatsbegrafenissen ter aarde besteld. President Reagan was bij de begrafenissen aanwezig en stelde dat ondanks het tragische ongeval met de Challenger het spaceshuttleprogramma voortgezet zou worden.
OnderzoekEr werd een uitgebreid onderzoek ingesteld naar het ongeluk, waarbij ook het management van het spaceshuttleprogramma tegen het licht werd gehouden. Tot de leden van de commissie-Rogers behoorden Richard Feynman en Neil Armstrong. Ten behoeve van het onderzoek werd een groot gedeelte van de stuwraketten en de Challenger geborgen van de bodem van de Atlantische Oceaan. De vele beelden die van de lancering werden gemaakt werden uitgebreid bestudeerd en vele honderden getuigen, zowel binnen als buiten het Amerikaanse ruimtevaartprogramma werden gehoord. Feynman demonstreerde tijdens een hoorzitting de oorzaak van de ramp en presenteerde een minderheidsstandpunt. Negen maanden na de ramp rapporteerde de onderzoekscommissie haar bevindingen aan de Amerikaanse president en deed zij vele aanbevelingen om herhaling van het ongeval te voorkomen. Pas twee jaar en acht maanden na het ongeval, nadat de constructie van de stuwraketten van de overgebleven spaceshuttles was gewijzigd en onder andere een aantal veranderingen was doorgevoerd in de organisatie van het spaceshuttleprogramma, vond de volgende lancering van een spaceshuttle plaats.
De besluitvorming die leidde tot het lanceren van de shuttle met zijn gevolgen wordt vaak aangehaald als voorbeeld van groepsdenken.
Bron:
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_(ruimteveer)
Wat als er nu mensen zijn die je vertellen dat de meeste, of zelfs alle, bemanningsleden vandaag de dag nog in leven zijn?
Gaat ver he!?
Toch zijn ze op cluesforum.info tot die conclusie gekomen.
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Ik ga nu even in het Engels verder en doe nog even wat knip en plakwerk:
1. Francis Richard Scobee, Commander of Challenger Space ShuttleBorn on May 19, 1939, Commander Francis Richard Scobee was 46 when he died in the Challenger explosion. He would be 75 years old if he were alive today.
Strangely, there’s a man also named Richard Scobee, the CEO of a Chicago marketing-advertising company called Cows in Trees, who bears a striking resemblance (factoring in the 30-year timelapse) to Commander Richard Scobee — same high forehead, same eyebrows, same wide-set eyes that are slightly tilted down in their outer corners.
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The source of the pic on the right of CEO Richard Scobee is his
LinkedIn page.
If you go on Cows in Trees’ website, you’ll see an animation of a rocket-powered cow in the sky with swirling smoke shaped like the number 6, much like Space Shuttle Challenger as it was seen on TV exploding in mid-air. Wink, wink. CEO Richard Scobee sure has a sense of humor! /sarc
2. Michael J. Smith, Pilot of ChallengerBorn on April 30, 1945, Challenger pilot Michael John Smith was 41 years old when he died in the explosion.
There’s a man also named Michael J. Smith, who bears a striking resemblance to astronaut Michael J. Smith — same horizontal eyebrows, same grey-blue eyes, same vertical indentation in the tip of the nose. This Michael J. Smith is a Professor Emeritus (retired) of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, whose email address is mjsmith@cae.wisc.edu
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Astronaut Michael J. Smith would be 70 years old if he were still alive today. Well, hot diggidy damn, there just happens to be a 69-year-old
Michael J. Smith (the professor?) whose addresses include Madison, Wisconsin! (He’s #74 on this
LookUpAnyone list.)
3. Ronald McNair, Challenger’s Mission SpecialistBorn on Oct. 21, 1950, Challenger’s mission specialist Ronald McNair, the second African-American astronaut, with a Ph.D. in physics, would be 64 years old if he had not perished in the space shuttle explosion. If Ronald (l) were still alive today, he would look just like this pic of his brother, Carl (r).
Carl McNair is an author, education consultant and inspirational speaker. He is the founder and president emeritus of the Ronald E. McNair Foundation in honor of his brother. Here’s Carl’s
LinkedIn page. (
Please scroll down to my Update of May 9, 2015, for the results of my search on ancestry.com for the birth record(s) of Carl McNair.)
4. Ellison Onizuka, Challenger Mission SpecialistAnother Challenger mission specialist, Ellison Onizuka, the first Japanese-American astronaut, also has a lookalike brother named Claude. Born on June 24, 1946 in Hawaii, Ellison would be 68 years old today if he had not died in the Challenger explosion. If Ellison were still alive, he would look just like this pic of his younger brother Claude — same eyebrows, same eyes, same crow’s feet wrinkles, same nose, even the same hair-parting.
Claude Onizuka is a Liquor Adjudication Board Member of the Department of Liquor Control, County of Hawaii, Hilo, Hawaii. (Please scroll down to my Update of May 9, 2015, for the results of my search on ancestry.com for the birth record(s) of Claude Onizuka.)
5. Judith Resnik, Challenger Mission SpecialistBorn on April 5, 1949, Challenger mission specialist
Judith Arlene Resnik, with a Ph.D. in electrical engineering, was the first Jewish American astronaut to go into space and the second female American astronaut. She would be 66 years old today if she had not died in the explosion.
If she were alive today, it is not difficult to imagine that after 29 years, astronaut Judith Resnik would look like Arthur Liman Professor of Law
Judith Resnik at Yale Law School — dark curly hair, dark eyes, same eyebrow shape, same lines on both sides of the face extending up from the jaw.
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Simonshack draws our attention to how both Judith Resnicks’ upper lips form a slight peak (on their left) when they speak:
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I searched Ancestry.com for “Judith Resnik” whose birthday was April 5, 1949 (according to
Wikipedia). While there are burials and obituaries for Judith Resnik who was born April 4 or 5, 1949 and died on Jan. 28, 1986 (see below the screenshot I took),
I looked through Ancestry.com’s 241 death records for the last name Resnik but cannot find the Social Security Death Index (SSDI) for astronaut Judith Resnik or any other Judith Resnik. The only Resnik SSDIs I found are for Gerald Resnik, Paul Resnik, Sharon Resnik, Wulf Resnik, Michael Resnik, Charles Resnik, Stanley Resnik, Gary Resnik, Daniel Resnik, Donald Resnik, and Patricia Resnik. There is no SSDI for Judith Resnik.
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UPDATE (Sept. 10, 2015):
Here’s a YouTube video comparing the voices of astronaut Judith Resnick and Professor Judith Resnick (h/t FOTM reader CW). They are the same woman.
6. Sharon Christa McAuliffe, Challenger Payload SpecialistBorn on Sept. 2, 1948,
Sharon Christa McAuliffea.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe]Sharon Christa McAuliffe[/url] was a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire when she was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project. If Challenger had not exploded, she would be the first teacher in space. If she had not died in the Challenger disaster, McAuliffe would be 66 years old today.
Well, there’s a
Sharon A. McAuliffe, an adjunct professor at Syracuse University College of Law, who kinda looks like an older astronaut McAuliffe, factoring in the 30 years timelapse. Look at the cowlick of hair, sweeping from the center of their hairlines to the left side of their foreheads.
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I searched Ancestry.com for the SSDI for “Sharon McAuliffe,” with the birthdate of Sept. 2, 1948. I found grave/burial indexes for Sharon Christa McAuliffe and an SSDI for a Sha McAuliffe. See screenshot I took below (click to enlarge):
Simonshack points us that “It may also be entirely coincidental” that Syracuse law professor Sharon is
a cousin of Terry McAuliffe, the current governor of Virginia who was
co-chairman of President Bill Clinton’s 1996 re-election campaign and chairman of Hillary Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. Terry McAuliffe, an advocate of gun control, is also very much concerned about NASA funding issues. See here and here.
In the end we need to ask ourselves this question:
It’s one thing that one of the Challenger’s crew members resembles someone alive today. For that, we can chalk it up to a coincidence.
It’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. Smith, Judith Resnick, Sharon McAuliffe). What are the chances of that?
You don’t have to be an expert in mathematics to know that those odds defy statistical probability.
H/t FOTM’s Martha Trowbridge
Update (May 1, 2015):On the genealogy website Ancestry.com, I found the SSDIs of Francis Richard Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and a “Sha McAuliffe” (see above in the section on McAuliffe), but not of Judith Resnik (as I explained above in the section on her above. Here are the screenshots I took of the SSDIs of Scobee, Smith, McNair, Onizuka, and Jarvis.
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It should be said that although SSDI presumably has the imprimatur of the U.S. government, we still have reasons to be skeptical. I refer you to the curious case of Adam Lanza, who on Dec. 14, 2012, allegedly shot to death, first his mother Nancy, then 20 children and 6 adults at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. We are told that he then shot himself in the head minutes before the police arrived at the school.
Genealogy sites such as Ancestry.com initially had Adam Lanza’s SSDI with a date of death (DOD) as Dec. 13, 2012 — one day BEFORE the massacre. Then when bloggers discovered that strange DOD, the genealogy websites quickly changed his DOD to Dec. 14, 2012. See:
SSDI changed Adam Lanza’s date-of-death from Dec. 13 to Dec. 14, 2012 !!! Ancestry.com still has Adam Lanza’s date-of-death as a day before the Sandy Hook massacreUpdate (May 9, 2015): The Search for 2 BrothersCarl McNair
I searched on Ancestry.com for a “Carl McNair,” who claims to be the brother of astronaut Ronald McNair. Carl S. McNair’s LinkedIn page says his birthdate is Dec. 16; Wikipedia’s page on Ronald McNair says his parents are Carl C. and Pearl M. McNair. So I asked Ancestry.com to search all “birth, baptism and christening” records for “Carl McNair,” born on Dec. 16, whose father is Carl McNair and mother is Pearl McNair.
Result of search: Just one record in Texas Birth Certificates 1903-1932, that of Herschel John McNair, born on 12 Oct 1912 – Rosewood, Upshur, whose father was William McNair and mother was Pearl Watkins.
In other words, according to Ancestry.com, there is no Carl McNair, brother of Ronald McNair. Here’s the screenshot I took of ancestry.com’s search results, with the time (10:18 AM) and date (5/9/2015) when I took it in the lower right corner (circled in red).
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Just to be sure, I re-did my search for “Carl McNair,” this time without specifying the names of the parents. There were 8,850 results. So I narrowed the search to “Carl McNair,” whose father’s last name is McNair and whose mother’s first name is Pearl. That narrowed the results to 8,980, which include all persons whose last name is McNair or similar-sounding last names, e.g., McNare, McNear, Mackner. Of those 8,980 results, I found no Carl McNair whose father’s name is (also) Carl McNair and whose mother’s first name is Pearl.
No parent names were given for these 3 Carl McNairs:
Carl W. McNair, b. Sept 2, 1950
Carl F. McNair, b. Feb. 9, 1954
Marcus Carl McNair, b. Dec. 23, 1952
Since astronaut Ronald McNair was born on Oct. 21, 1950, we can rule out #1 Carl W. McNair, born on Sept. 2, 1950, as Ronald’s brother. That leaves us with Carl. F. McNair and Marcus Carl McNair.
Claude Onizuka
I also asked Ancestry.com to search for the birth records of “Claude Onizuka,” the alleged brother of astronaut Ellison Onizuka. According to Wikipedia’s entry on Ellison Onizuka, his father was the late Masamitsu Onizuka, his mother is Mitsue Onizuka.
Result of search: “Your search for Claude Onizuka returned zero good matches.”
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Just to be sure, I re-did the search for “Claude Onizuka,” this time without putting in the names of the parents. There were 36 results, none of which is Claude Onizuka. In other words, according to Ancestry.com, no one named Claude Onizuka had ever been born in the United States.
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