Heaven's Gate (Space Race Didn't End)

Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religion doomsday cult based in Lompoc, California, founded in the early 1970s and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, in order to reach what they believed was an alien space craft following the Comet Hale–Bopp, they stole a deep space research vessel.

The members of Heaven's Gate cult was filled with computer specialists, who videotaped their farewells and left little to clean up  in the $2 million estate they called home, putting out the trash and packing their belongings for those who were left behind before stealing a deep space craft in LEO.