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Yes - all of the crew remains were recovered when the Shuttle Crew Compartment was discovered during recovery operations in the weeks following the accident. It was determined from both evidence in the compartment and autopsies that several were still alive after the explosion (emergency oxygen canisters had been activated) and that they survived until impacting the ocean.
All of the bodies were recovered, but it was never determined how the astronauts died. It is assumed they died due to the impact with the ocean, and not the explosion itself.
Challenger Destroyed 73 seconds into LaunchThe NASA space shuttle Challenger, carrying 7 astronauts on orbital mission STS-51-L, exploded during the launch, killing all on board including the first "teacher in space" Christa McAuliffe. The other six killed were pilot Michael J. Smith, mission commander Dick Scobee, and specialists Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik.The external fuel tank, containing tons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, was ruptured by a flare of hot gas from one of the two solid-propellant booster rockets, causing a breakup that destroyed the vehicle. The shuttle crew compartment and the two SRB boosters (both remotely destructed) all fell into the ocean. The bodies of the astronauts were not recovered until March 9th.
You know what happens when you leave the cover off the blender and then start it? That's the condition the bodies were in.
What was left of them, yes.
Yes - all of the crew remains were recovered when the Shuttle Crew Compartment was discovered during recovery operations in the weeks following the accident. It was determined from both evidence in the compartment and autopsies that several were still alive after the explosion (emergency oxygen canisters had been activated) and that they survived until impacting the ocean.
All of the bodies were recovered, but it was never determined how the astronauts died. It is assumed they died due to the impact with the ocean, and not the explosion itself.
The Challenger struck the water at such a high rate of speed that finding all the pieces afterward was a very daunting task. Some pieces even washed ashore eleven years after the disaster. The bodies (or more accurately, some of their remains) were sent to their families for burial, with two being buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The rest of the remains were buried in a communal plot. The Discovery was not known to have produced any disaster. The Columbia, however, disintegrated upon re-entry into the Earth's atmosphere. Parts of the shuttle, as well as human remains, were found scattered over parts of North and East Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
It was a major disaster, but only claimed between 200 and 300 lives (125 bodies were recovered).The accepted estimate is between 200 and 300 persons.
All the bodies were eventually recovered .
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Challenger Destroyed 73 seconds into LaunchThe NASA space shuttle Challenger, carrying 7 astronauts on orbital mission STS-51-L, exploded during the launch, killing all on board including the first "teacher in space" Christa McAuliffe. The other six killed were pilot Michael J. Smith, mission commander Dick Scobee, and specialists Ronald McNair, Ellison Onizuka, Gregory Jarvis, and Judith Resnik.The external fuel tank, containing tons of liquid hydrogen and oxygen, was ruptured by a flare of hot gas from one of the two solid-propellant booster rockets, causing a breakup that destroyed the vehicle. The shuttle crew compartment and the two SRB boosters (both remotely destructed) all fell into the ocean. The bodies of the astronauts were not recovered until March 9th.
Yes, the cabin they were in when they fell into the sea was found six weeks after the disaster. Remains of the crew were found but were decomposed and partly eaten by fish and other sea life. It could not be determined whether the remains were of all Severn crew members or only part of the crew.
In the ocean off of Cape Canaveral.
You know what happens when you leave the cover off the blender and then start it? That's the condition the bodies were in.
What was left of them, yes.
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