A bizarre gaffe during the Blue Origin space flight has sparked wild conspiracy theories the mission was fake.
RadarOnline.com can reveal skeptics centered on the door of the New Shepard capsule, which landed back on earth on Tuesday with its all-female crew safely inside.
Blue Origin founder Jeff Bezos proudly wrenched open the hatch with a specialized tool to greet the crew, including his fiancée Lauren Sánchez and singer Katy Perry.
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Conspiracy theorists have seized on this strange moment, hailing it as “definitive proof” the mission was faked.
While there is little doubt that the Blue Origin rocket reached space, it shows just how tightly choreographed the staged event was supposed to be.
Taking to X, one skeptical commenter wrote: “I’d say this is the nail in the coffin. FAKE!”
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Dr. Daniel Jolley, an expert on the psychology of conspiracies from the University of Nottingham in the U.K., said: “Space is vast, complex and largely inaccessible to most people — in this context, it becomes easier for some individuals to question the official narrative.”
On X, many commenters who already had their doubts about the launch have seized on this embarrassing door gaffe as a clear sign their theories are correct.
One commenter wrote: “It was fake. The girls opened the door to begin with from the inside with no tools.
“They then waited a few minutes, and Jeff Bezos stepped up with some sort of tool and acted like he unlocked the latch.”
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While one commenter wrote: “This s— is so fake. Watch the door be opened from the inside; then they need a tool to open it from the outside.”
The main reason theorists latched on to this detail was the belief that the pressurized cabin shouldn’t have an inward-opening door that could be operated by passengers.
Typical spacecraft have doors that open outwards and require a team of technicians working from the outside to unlock.
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The crew capsule hit a maximum altitude of 66.5 miles (107 km), which just put them over the Karman Line, the official boundary of space.
Joining Sánchez and Perry on board were CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King, film producer Kerianne Flynn, activist Amanda Nguyen and former NASA rocket scientist Aisha Bowe.
* Original Article:
https://radaronline.com/p/blue-origin-flight-fake-conspiracy-theory-erupts/