Space Shuttle Challenger Remembered

Some of the infamous events in history that we lived through, are forever imbibed in our memories. Even as we age and our short term memory degrades, horrific events such as the Challenger Space Shuttle disaster are still recalled like they happened yesterday. We had to accept NASA's official story of 'O-ring failures' as the cause which led to this tragedy. However, when the go-order was given to launch the shuttle in near freezing temperatures, it was already known that the O-ring seals were not rated to hold in temperatures below 40 degrees fahrenheit. Therefore, critical safety guidelines were intentionally bypassed. Why would NASA take such an immense risk during a high profile space mission? Either NASA management was totally incompetent, or they had covert reasons for seeking catostrophic failure. Regardless of which explanation NASA chooses, they will still appear bad, and they can never defend their actions in this matter.

By contrast, in decades past, we also had to accept the official stories regarding the assassinations of JFK, RFK & MLK, as well as the reasons for the Waco massacre in 1993, and the Oklahoma City bombing in 1995. We were lied into perpetual wars using the false flag of 911, and then later blindsided with the bailouts of banks and Wall Street's ponzi schemes. In 2010, Martial Law was imposed on the U.S. Gulf Coast States to silence the truth regarding the growing number of victims resulting from the BP Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico. This Godzilla of oil spills is the worst man-made disaster ever recorded, and it continues gushing oil, laced with toxic Corexit dispersants. These are just a few reflections of past events that I can remember off the top of my head, which have dubious historical accountability.

I will always have doubts in our governments "official" worded conclusions on anything, which should be expected with any written work of fiction that is submitted as fact. At this juncture in our timeline of world history, it seems rather useless to search for answers within the sea of lies and media disinformation. A conspiracy theorist will always have an uphill battle, because most people will accept baseless lies more easily than the evident truth.

For those of us who are old enough to remember, we shall always be able to recall where we were 25 years ago, on January 28, 1986 when the Challenger Space Shuttle went down in flames and a cloud of debris. The "official story" of why and how this space mission failed, will have to suffice as the historical record.

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