Rather than being carried to Heaven in an instant, the crippled vessel kept sailing upward for another three miles before its momentum gave out, then plunged 12 miles to the ocean. The crew was, in all likelihood, conscious for the full two and a half minutes until it hit the water.
I heard about this for the first time last night watching an episode of SECONDS TO DISASTER that mentioned that the crew section was recovered intact and that at least three emergency air supplies had been activated. So someone was alive for a while, but the impact of the crew section hitting the ocean would have killed everyone. VERY UPSETTING.
http://gawker.com/thirty-years-ago-the-challenger-crew-plunged-alive-and-1755727930
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