Additionally, there is a possibility that incorrect records of death have been entered on the DMF," website says.Īll four found, though, match the crew members’ dates of birth and death, and the states in which their Social Security cards were issued.SPACE SHUTTLES CHALLENGER AND COLUMBIA ACCIDENTS "The absence of a particular person in the SSDI is not proof this person is alive. We also found four of the crew members - Scobee, Smith, Onizuka and McNair - in the Social Security Death Index, which is not comprehensive, as the database includes most, but not all, persons who have died since 1935. Lastly, for a major national conspiracy supposedly orchestrated by NASA, it is highly improbable the crew would be living openly, under the same names and with no physical disguises in place. Third, some of the lookalikes do not actually resemble the crew members, with different facial structures and characteristics, and seem selected to simply try to help prove the conspiracy. And Claude Onizuka has paid tribute to his brother over the years by hosting the Onizuka Science Day for schoolchildren in their native Hawaii. Carl McNair, has given interviews about his brother, including one on Story Corps on the 25th anniversary of the Challenger explosion in 2011. These are both real people and not assumed identities. Second, Onizuka and McNair’s supposed doppelgangers are the astronauts’ actual brothers, Claude Onizuka and Carl McNair, respectively.
This can also be applied to Richard Scobee, Sharon (Christa) McAuliffe and Michael Smith. The same woman couldn’t have been working different jobs, in different geographic locations, at the same time. In 1984, astronaut Resnik was on a space flight, making her the second American woman to go to space.
In 1985, law professor Resnik was writing papers for law review journals. To say the evidence is not conclusive would be an understatement. This is an example of conspiracy theorists combining a few suggestive aspects in an attempt to prove a monumental, and well-documented event, was faked. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. The Facebook post also links a YouTube video from 2016 that highlights the doppelgangers while "The Twilight Zone" theme song plays. – has been roaming around the internet since at least 2015, when other fact-checkers debunked it. This conspiracy rumor – which claims that persons resembling the crew members with identical or similar names are still living out their lives around the U.S. I just found Astro-NOT Judith Resnik by searching Yale’s website just moments ago." Pictures of the crew are attached, with side-by-side comparisons with their so-called dopplegangers. The post reads: "They didn’t die in 1986. One post, shared on Facebook on the 33rd anniversary of the accident, purports that the entire event was a hoax, and that crew members are alive and well today. The same, it seems, with the Challenger disaster. Unfortunately, conspiracy theorists have taken to making mockeries of large-scale tragic events. President Ronald Reagan soon addressed a stunned nation from the Oval Office, calling it "truly a national loss." Smith, Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis, and McAuliffe, the New Hampshire teacher who had been selected to fly via NASA’S "Teacher in Space" program. Children across the United States witnessed the event from classrooms, where they were seated before televisions, prepared to celebrate NASA’s first "teacher-astronaut," Christa McAuliff.Īll seven crew members on the mission perished: Francis R. Live broadcasts captured the space shuttle breaking apart and plummeting in midair. 28, 1986, the Challenger Space Shuttle flight ended in tragedy when it disintegrated just 73 seconds after liftoff.
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