Time Travel by Nick Redfern

Author:Nick Redfern
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Visible Ink Press
Published: 2021-04-15T00:00:00+00:00

The woman’s claims—provided by the “Source”—were controversial: she maintained that the terrorist group in question included two workers at the Kennedy Space Center and one of the astronauts who died in the disaster: mission specialist Ellison Onizuka. As the FBI agents working on the case listened carefully—and, perhaps, a bit dubiously too—they were told that the group in question had a deep hatred of the United States and, by destroying the shuttle, wished to destabilize the U.S. space program and American morale. Whether the woman’s story was true or not, it is a fact that the U.S. public was indeed shocked to the core, and the space shuttle program was put on hold for 32 months.

When the agents asked the woman how the sabotage was achieved, they got a detailed answer: “The explosion was effected by a device placed inside the external fuel tank of the Shuttle. An individual whose description seems to match that of an engineer or technician placed this charge. The charge was triggered by a second saboteur using a hand-held transmitter while standing in the crowds watching the Shuttle lift-off. The individual matches the description of a guard or security person. The astronaut saboteur chose to die in the explosion as a sort of ritual death or ‘cleansing.’”

As with all of the previous cases that the FBI had looked into, this one led nowhere—at least, that is the assumption since no arrests were made. The odd affair came to a complete halt just weeks after it commenced.

The destruction of the Challenger space shuttle, on January 28, 1986, remains to this day one of the worst moments in NASA’s history. Whether it was a moment provoked by nothing stranger than a terrible accident or something filled to the brim with conspiracy theories and sinister, ruthless characters very much depends on whom you ask.

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