Great find Mylo.X.
Apparently, no secret is safe forever. Here's the whole story.
On January 27th 1967, NASA experienced the first loss of any astronauts. While this type event was anticipated, the outcry from congress, astronaut families, and the public was less expected. After this event, in an effort to help the space program survive, a "promise" was made to the astronauts... that they would "survive" future catastrophes.
The study of cloning, first displayed in 1885, had been on going ever since. In 1952 it was shown that transfer of nuclear material from an embryonic cell to an enucleated egg developed into the original organism and in 1958, a transfer of a nucleus from a differentiated (intestinal) cell to an enucleated egg resulted in the successful development of the original organism. Advances continued with embryonic cells to develop mammalian clones of sheep and cows until the final development of the first successful mammalian clone from a somatic cell, Dolly the sheep, in 1996. NASA's promise could now be realized.
NASA, knowing of the studies in cloning, promised to "clone" any astronaut killed in the service of NASA, at a future date when the science became viable, and began taking DNA samples from all astronauts after 1967. The first test of their promise came in 1986 and was conducted 10 years later.
Cloning, being a highly debated and controversial subject, has been furthered in secret, in covert overseas labs. It has been used to clone government entities as well as those with the considerable "means" to afford, and there by support, this process. In these secret locations the process has been advanced to the stage where the growth process can be controlled. Some, later individuals, had the opportunity to express a desire to "where/when" in the process they wished to be set and have "begun" their new lives at that point, whether as adults or teens. Those that were unable to have offered a position were stopped at the age they "died". Academics and social experience was offered at an accelerated rate also so they would be at the necessary level of competence needed at the age they were set. Sufficient "back stories" were created to allow these individuals to exist with little, to no notice, in society. That part apparently has failed.
You would have thought NASA might be smart enough to at least have changed their names.
This also explains the appearance of "other" dead celebrities, among them, JFK, Elvis, and any others you want to add to the list.
That's my story and I'm... stickin to it. :whistle: