All ofChallenger's debris landed into the ocean just off the Kennedy Space Center. No one on the surface was struck.
The Space Shuttle is not a capsule, it's a spacecraft. They found many pieces of the Challenger space shuttle, including the crew compartment.
By divers.
Pieces of the space shuttle Columbia were found across eastern Texas and Louisiana after it disintegrated during re-entry on February 1, 2003. The largest concentration of debris was found in Nacogdoches, Texas, where recovery efforts were focused.
Atlantic Ocean
The Presidential Commission Report on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident (Rogers Report) can be found via the below link.
Yes, the bodies of the space shuttle Challenger disaster were recovered. The remains of the seven crew members were found in the debris after the shuttle disintegrated in mid-air during launch in 1986.
The part of the spaceshuttle the crew from the challenger were sitting in landed in the ocean upon explosion and all 7 crew members were found inside dead.
The bodies of the seven crew members aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger were recovered after the shuttle disintegrated in a tragic accident in 1986. The remains were found in the debris field in the Atlantic Ocean.
They were found in the crew cabin on the Atlantic Ocean floor off the coast of Florida.
Sadly none of the astronauts in the Challenger at the time of explosion lived. The last thing that was heard from the shuttle was commander Dick Scobee saying "Roger. Go for throttle up."
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.
After the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, Navy divers recovered the remains of the astronauts from the debris in the ocean where the shuttle broke apart. The remains were found once the wreckage settled on the ocean floor, and the recovery operation was carried out in a respectful and solemn manner.