Astronauts Likely Survived Challenger Explosion
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Published: Fri Jan 28 2011
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On July 28, 1986, NASA's Associate Administrator for Space Flight, former astronaut Richard H. Truly, released a report on the deaths of the crew from the director of Space and Life Sciences at the Johnson Space Center, Joseph P. Kerwin. A medical doctor and former astronaut, Kerwin was a veteran of the 1973 Skylab 2 mission. According to the Kerwin Report:
The findings are inconclusive. The impact of the crew compartment with the ocean surface was so violent that evidence of damage occurring in the seconds which followed the disintegration was masked. Our final conclusions are:
the cause of death of the Challenger astronauts cannot be positively determined;
the forces to which the crew were exposed during Orbiter breakup were probably not sufficient to cause death or serious injury; and
the crew possibly, but not certainly, lost consciousness in the seconds following Orbiter breakup due to in-flight loss of crew module pressure.
Some experts believe most if not all of the crew were alive and possibly conscious during the entire descent until impact with the ocean. Astronaut and NASA lead accident investigator Robert Overmyer said, "I not only flew with Dick Scobee, we owned a plane together, and I know Scob did everything he could to save his crew. Scob fought for any and every edge to survive. He flew that ship without wings all the way down... they were alive."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster
I have heard that they monitored their heart beats after the explosion and the heartbeats continued minutes after the explosion.
I remember reading something like that too -something like it might have been possible that these poor souls were ejected knocked out, but would have died on impact with the ocean.
This was JUST on the front page. Maybe a week or two ago. C'mon.
This is true. I know a fellow who worked at NASA, he would tell the same sort of thing with tears in his eyes. Shame is, he became an alcoholic afterwards. I think he sort of blamed himself for it.