Robert Pearlman is a space historian, journalist and the founder and editor of collectSPACE.com, an online publication and community devoted to space history with a particular focus on how and where space exploration intersects with pop culture. Pearlman is also a contributing writer for Space.com and co-author of 'Space Stations: The Art, Science, and Reality of Working in Space” published by Smithsonian Books in 2018. He previously developed online content for the National Space Society and Apollo 11 moonwalker Buzz Aldrin, helped establish the space tourism company Space Adventures and currently serves on the History Committee of the American Astronautical Society, the advisory committee for The Mars Generation and leadership board of For All Moonkind. In 2009, he was inducted into the U.S. Space Camp Hall of Fame in Huntsville, Alabama. In 2021, he was honored by the American Astronautical Society with the Ordway Award for Sustained Excellence in Spaceflight History.
Underwater explorer and marine biologist Mike Barnette and wreck diver Jimmy Gadomski explore a segment of NASA's fallen space shuttle Challenger, which the team discovered in the waters off the coast of Florida during film of The History Channel new series"The Bermuda Triangle: Into Cursed Waters."
That discovery led to the aircraft being raised, as it was believed to be one of five such torpedo bombers that disappeared in the so-called Bermuda Triangle on Dec. 5, 1945. Code named"Flight 19," all five aircraft and their 14 crewmen were lost without explanation. to be found since the disaster 36 years ago. The divers did not set out to find spacecraft debris, but rather were looking for the wreck of a Martin PBM Mariner flying boat that also went missing on Dec. 5, 1945."That sometimes happens.
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