When We Left Earth: The NASA Missions

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Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

Challenger tonight.

"They were alive until they hit the water". Haunting.

That caught me by surprise. That, and the fact that the booster rockets were remotely blown up because they were out of control.

But they did say they were unconsious shortly after the explosion, and most likely the whole time until they hit the water and died. Very sad.