Judith Resnik was the first Jewish astronaut. She died in 1986 aboard the Challenger (teachers in space, remember?). Some guy hijacked a plane in Frankfurt and threatened to crash it into a building to remind the public. Strange one... One of our dear readers came up with the following conspiracy theory: "I heard that the guy who just stole that glider was Resnik's boyfriend back in the 70s and the two of them made a pact to hijack the Space Shuttle and fly it into Skylab to protest the PLO bombings, but then Skylab fell to Earth on its own in 1979 and they were shit out of luck."

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