If she had not died in the Challenger disaster, McAuliffe would be 66 years old today.Well, there's a Sharon A. If Challenger had not exploded, she would be the first teacher in space. 2, 1948, Sharon Christa McAuliffe 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. How someone could have been simultaneously (not to mention secretly) holding down two completely disparate jobs at opposite ends of the country remains unexplained.īorn on Sept. And while Judith Resnik the electrical engineer was engaged in work and study at RCA, NIH, Xerox, and NASA in the 1970s and 80s, Judith Resnik the lawyer was teaching law school classes at Yale and USC. Nobody familiar with either person would confuse these two Judith Resniks with each other, as they have very different facial structures. 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. Born on Jin Hawaii, Ellison would be 68 years old today if he had not died in the Challenger explosion. Are we supposed to believe that Ronald secretly took over his brother's identity after the Challenger "accident" and somehow engineered the disappearance of the real Carl? Of course, the real point of this comparison is that the creators of this conspiracy theory couldn't find a similarly named doppelgänger for Ronald McNair other than his own brother.Īnother Challenger mission specialist, Ellison Onizuka, the first Japanese-American astronaut, also has a lookalike brother named Claude. And this proves what, exactly? It might be a curiosity if there were no record of the existence of "Carl McNair" until after the Challenger explosion, but that isn't the case. Yes, the late Ronald McNair looked a lot like his brother, Carl, as many siblings do (but they're still easy to tell apart, as Carl has an obvious gap in his front teeth that Ronald didn't). 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. 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.
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