It was an alchemical occult ritual working. Every school child in America was sat in front of the TV at school to watch the school teacher they had learned about for months go to space. Mass traumatization of every one of those children, myself included. We concluded from that event several things: Space travel is real, space travel is dangerous, even experts fuck up and God kills innocents for no reason. Too bad it was all a con to frighten schoolchildren.

Also, this took the death of L. Ron Hubbard, potentially a massive Scientology scandal out of the news. Scientology is nothing more than Aleister Crowley's Thelema in a sci-fi package. L. Ron Hubbard learned everything he knew from Jack Parsons, the head of the Ordo Templi Orientis in Pasadena and the inventor of the solid-rocket fuel used in the Apollo missions, the founder of Jet Propulsion Laboratories (Jack Parsons Laboratories), the guy who would recite Crowley's Hymn to Pan during rocket launches. I think you can safely conclude that the satanists that run Scientology are in league with the satanists who run NASA.

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/08/23/18529112.php

"In 1986, Hubbard was hiding out at his Southern California ranch. One fine day, he died, hopped up out of his mind on the psychiatric medication Vistaril. David Miscavige and a couple of other top Scilons zoomed up there to prevent the Coroner from doing any more damage than he had already done, drawing a sample of LRH's dead blood and discerning the Vistaril. There would be no autopsy. The cremation will be tomorrow kthxbye. The next day the space shuttle Challenger exploded, and nobody really paid much attention to Hubbard's death."