{"id":1790,"date":"2020-04-20T20:14:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T01:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/?p=1790"},"modified":"2021-04-26T14:36:09","modified_gmt":"2021-04-26T19:36:09","slug":"the-crew-of-the-challenger-was-alive-the-entire-fall-and-nasa-tried-to-cover-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/?p=1790","title":{"rendered":"The Crew Of The Challenger Was Alive The Entire Fall &#8211; And NASA Tried To Cover It Up"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" autoplay controls poster=\"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/2-photo-u1.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/yt1s.com-Astronauts-Likely-Survived-Challenger-Explosion_360p.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA In the chaos&nbsp;of watching the lives of seven brave, adventurous&nbsp;individuals being engulfed in flames, it is hard to even consider the possibility that they survived &#8211; but they did. In photographs like the ones above, you can even see the&nbsp;ship escaping the blaze, though it certainly didn&#8217;t get away unscathed.<\/li><li>Despite Losing Both Of Its Wings, The Cabin Was Largely intact<\/li><li><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396400\/original\/9-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA<\/li><li>The shuttle&#8217;s cabin, though intact, was severely damaged on the outside, having&nbsp;lost both of its wings, but still managed to be propelled nearly three miles up into the sky before nose-diving&nbsp;down into the ocean 12 miles below.&nbsp;However, upon recovering what remained of the shuttle, NASA scientists&nbsp;determined&nbsp;that the cabin had survived the blast, meaning that those aboard had survived too.<\/li><li>Their Descent Took Two-And-A-Half Minutes &#8211; And The Crew Was Alive The Whole Time<\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA After&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Challenger&nbsp;<\/em>slowly began to arch its way downward toward the ocean in&nbsp;a steady descent, it took&nbsp;2 minutes,&nbsp;45 seconds, for them to make their way to the surface of the ocean below. Yet, because the cabin fell at such a controlled pace without spinning out of control, it suggests that the&nbsp;ship never depressurized&nbsp;and&nbsp;the astronauts were likely conscious the whole time. In fact, it was discovered that the astronauts had even engaged their&nbsp;reserve&nbsp;oxygen packs during the fall in an attempt to survive.<\/li><li>The Crew Was Highly Trained And Likely Could Have Survived If Properly Equipped<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396379\/original\/7-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA <\/li><li>NASA&#8217;s attempted coverup of the initial survival of the flight&#8217;s crew has been linked to embarrassment from their lack of preparation. As&nbsp;Tom Scocca of Gawker put it: NASA had failed to take any precautions in the event of&#8230; [an] accident. It was of a piece with the hubris and magical thinking that had led NASA to put a civilian social-studies teacher aboard a dangerous spacecraft, for a nation of students to watch live in class. There was no equipment to arrest the craft\u2019s fall or to allow the astronauts to ditch it, nor even an emergency locating transmitter. The crew could do nothing but ride it down. The suggestion that an event such as this could have been avoided with more forethought makes it all the more devastating.<\/li><li>NASA Claims The Crew&#8217;s Cause Of Death Cannot Be Officially determined<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396380\/original\/8-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA Despite the substantial evidence that suggests&nbsp;the astronauts&nbsp;survived the initial blast,&nbsp;NASA&nbsp;has taken a steadfast stance, declaring in their official report that &#8220;the cause of death of the&nbsp;<em>Challenger<\/em>&nbsp;astronauts cannot be positively determined.\u201d<\/li><li>NASA Asked Members Of The Recovery Team To Lie For Them<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396399\/original\/10-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA After recovery efforts were underway, one group came across a collection of debris that consisted of the notebooks, supplies, and &#8220;an astronaut\u2019s helmet, largely intact, containing ears and scalp&#8221; &#8211; but&nbsp;NASA convinced&nbsp;the member of the coast guard not to broadcast his findings in his upcoming television interview under the guise that the families hadn&#8217;t yet been informed.&nbsp;\u201cI didn\u2019t want them to hear about it on television. So I lied on television. I still feel bad about that,\u201d Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander James Simpson remembered.<\/li><li>The Truth Was Finally Revealed By A Miami Herald Reporter Nearly Two Years Later<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396378\/original\/6-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA After spending two years uncovering evidence about the events the transpired around the&nbsp;<em>Challenger<\/em>, reporter Dennis E. Powell of the <em>Miami Herald<\/em>\u2019s<em>&nbsp;Tropic&nbsp;<\/em>magazine was finally able to publish his findings. However, NASA went to great lengths to conceal this as well, as the reporter&#8217;s &#8220;investigation is nowhere to be found in the&nbsp;<em>Miami Herald\u2019s<\/em>&nbsp;anniversary coverage, nor does the paper appear to have put a version online at all.&#8221;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The incident that destroyed&nbsp;the now infamous&nbsp;<em>Challenger&nbsp;<\/em>space shuttle&nbsp;on the morning of January 28,&nbsp;1986, forever&nbsp;changed the future of&nbsp;NASA&#8217;s space programs; however, the true extent of the event spanned much further than anyone could have guessed. In the months following, after much of&nbsp;the original&nbsp;<em>Challenger<\/em>&nbsp;had been recovered and analysis of the crew&#8217;s remains was completed, Dennis E. Powell of&nbsp;the&nbsp;<em>Miami Herald\u2019s&nbsp;<\/em>Sunday magazine<em>, Tropic,<\/em>&nbsp;revealed that NASA had&nbsp;kept much of the story&nbsp;to themselves. They did this&nbsp;not out of respect for families&nbsp;but as a cruel PR move to help preserve their public opinion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The shocking truth that&nbsp;NASA attempted to hide&nbsp;was that the crew of six astronauts and one schoolteacher&nbsp;aboard the&nbsp;<em>Challenger<\/em>&nbsp;that day had, in fact, survived the explosion&nbsp;and instead met their ends after they plummeted 12 miles&nbsp;into the ocean. Likely embarrassed by their own lack of foresight when it came to preparing the crew for what may have been a survivable loss of life,&nbsp;NASA withheld&nbsp;information and forced people to lie on their behalf in an effort to keep the general public &#8211; which&nbsp;had watched the explosion live on their televisions &#8211;&nbsp;in the dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The Cabin Of The Challenger Actually Escaped The Explosion Mostly Intact<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" srcset=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=1 1x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=2 2x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=3 3x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=4 4x, https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650&amp;q=60&amp;dpr=5 5x\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396375\/original\/4-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\" class=\"\"><\/li><li>Photo:&nbsp;NASA A mere&nbsp;73&nbsp;seconds after lift off, &nbsp;the space shuttle&nbsp;<em>Challenger&nbsp;<\/em>was suddenly engulfed in flames. On the ground, people watching were struck by a confused silence as the broadcast announcement of the status of the astronauts&#8217; departure dramatically cut off;&nbsp;uncertainty flashed&nbsp;across their faces as they tried&nbsp;to figure out what was happening before their eyes.&nbsp;What they had unknowingly witnessed was the explosion of one of&nbsp;the ship&#8217;s&nbsp;rocket boosters&nbsp;that had failed at lift off.&nbsp;As&nbsp;people watching from the ground saw a fiery cloud engulf the rocket,&nbsp;on board&nbsp;&#8220;a sheet of flame swept up past the window of pilot Mike Smith, [and] there could be no question Smith knew \u2014 even in that single moment \u2014 that disaster had engulfed them.&#8221; It is at this point that Smith can be heard&nbsp;uttering a final &#8220;uh-oh,&#8221;&nbsp;the last thing captured by the in-flight&nbsp;recorder.<\/li><li>The Failed Rocket Booster Propelled The Cabin Upward Three Miles Before It Lost Momentum And Fell 12 Miles Into The Ocean <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imgix.ranker.com\/user_node_img\/50070\/1001396377\/original\/5-photo-u1?auto=format&amp;q=60&amp;fit=crop&amp;fm=pjpg&amp;w=650\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n<div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div><p id=\"pvc_stats_1790\" class=\"pvc_stats all  \" data-element-id=\"1790\" style=\"\"><i class=\"pvc-stats-icon medium\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><svg aria-hidden=\"true\" focusable=\"false\" data-prefix=\"far\" data-icon=\"chart-bar\" role=\"img\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" viewBox=\"0 0 512 512\" class=\"svg-inline--fa fa-chart-bar fa-w-16 fa-2x\"><path fill=\"currentColor\" d=\"M396.8 352h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V108.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v230.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm-192 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V140.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v198.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zm96 0h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8V204.8c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v134.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8zM496 400H48V80c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16H16C7.16 64 0 71.16 0 80v336c0 17.67 14.33 32 32 32h464c8.84 0 16-7.16 16-16v-16c0-8.84-7.16-16-16-16zm-387.2-48h22.4c6.4 0 12.8-6.4 12.8-12.8v-70.4c0-6.4-6.4-12.8-12.8-12.8h-22.4c-6.4 0-12.8 6.4-12.8 12.8v70.4c0 6.4 6.4 12.8 12.8 12.8z\" class=\"\"><\/path><\/svg><\/i> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"16\" height=\"16\" alt=\"Loading\" src=\"https:\/\/www.webfxonline.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/page-views-count\/ajax-loader-2x.gif\" border=0 \/><\/p><div class=\"pvc_clear\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Photo:&nbsp;NASA In the chaos&nbsp;of watching the lives of seven brave, adventurous&nbsp;individuals being engulfed in flames, it is hard to even consider the possibility that they survived &#8211; but they did. 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