Did they ever find any remains from the Challenger Disaster?

[Wabbajack]

Did they find any bodies or anything?

[Wickerman]

1. google

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/2717613.stm

[Trajan]

5. This is the Columbia Disaster ....

Dated Feb 3, 2003, NOT Jan 1986 ....

[Wickerman]

7. thanks

Oddly, when you type in Challenger human remains you get COlumbia links as they mix in discussion of the previous tragedy.

sorry for the false lead.

[Lexingtonian]

6. that was Columbia... n/t

[charlie]

2. Bodies, no

Not that I recall. Some identifiable remains of of the crew, yes. The cockpit went down pretty much intact, but the hard landing and seabed currents broke and dispersed it.

[Trajan]

3. Yes they did ....

Embedded in the avionics bays ....

The crew module envelope was intact at impact ....

The crew members had deployed emergency oxygen apparatus ...

But, with the module spinning as it descended, the centrifugal force pinned them to the walls if they left their seats, like the 'RoundUp' at county fairs ....

They 'integrated' with the spacecraft upon impact ....

They simply buried the crew module envelope in an old missile silo, bodies and all ... then covered it with cement ...

[JSK]

9. So what was in those seven coffins

they had at the memorial service? Purely symbolic?

I have been to the grave of Ellison Onasuka in Honolulu. Are any of his remains there? I always thought they had recovered some identifiable remains that were released to the families for burial.

[Lexingtonian]

4. yep.

The front cabin hit the ocean as one piece and was raised almost intact, with them still in it.

There is ambiguity about whether they were killed by the impact on water or the shock of the tank exploding. NASA refuses to be definitive about this and there are unverified rumors that some voice contact remained (panicked gasps and such) as they fell out of the sky.

[pointblank]

8. Do you know where I can find articles on this...

That some voice contact remained and other possible NASA cover-ups regarding the Challenger disaster...It happened when I was in third grade and I never really got the 'real' story.

[Mistress Quickly]

10. yes, apparently

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3078060/

Chapter 6: Raising heroes from the sea
10-week ordeal required to reunite the Challenger 7

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Recovery of the heroes was a long, difficult ordeal for all involved.

The bulkhead that secured the internal air pressure of the crew decks, separate from the airlock to the cargo bay, faced the divers as a dangerous skew of wreckage that had to be removed before they could reach what remained of the bodies inside.

First to be retrieved from the watery tomb were the remains of Judy Resnik. The divers worked slowly but steadily. More and more parts of bodies went to the surface. Then, from the middeck, the remains of First-Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe were carried slowly to the surface vessel. For the moment, that was all the divers could do.
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