Thirty Years Ago, the Challenger Crew Plunged Alive and Aware to Their Deaths

Thirty Years Ago, the Challenger Crew Plunged Alive and Aware to Their Deaths:

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NASA wanted to avoid discussions about astronaut safety and portray the Challenger disaster as a clean, “they died immediately” story. The truth is, the astronauts were alive, and probably conscious, for their three-minute plunge to the ocean surface, where they died of blunt force trauma. And had NASA planned for other ways to astronauts to survive an accident such as this, perhaps they could have survived. Even now, this story isn’t widely known.

I swear examiners decided that while death wasn’t instant, they likely burned/smoked to death…

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