Signs ‘bad’ for launching

Press, 18 February 1986, Page 4

Signs ‘bad’ for launching

The moment of the space shuttle Challenger explosion above Cape Canaveral on January 29, which killed all seven crew members, was during a volatile astrological phase, according to an astrologer, Mr Harry Abbenhuis. He had drawn a horoscope for the event which included several bad signs and only a few good ones, he said last evening when he was explaining the details of his horoscope during a lecture at the Arts Centre.

“If the people involved with the Challenger project had consulted a horoscope they would have seen that the scheduled

launching time was during an astrological phase that revealed much danger and death,” he said. A member of the University of Canterbury Society to Oppose Pseudoscience, Mr Matt McGlone, said that Mr Abbenhuis’s horoscope was astrologically accurate.

“One would have to ask, though, why other disastrous events did not occur for situations that coincided with the same horoscope features,” he said. “During each day there are many opportunities to use changing combinations of astrological signs to interpret events that occur.”