re: #60 RogueOne

I missed this yesterday, anyone else see this? The Challenger astronauts were alive after the explosion and during the fall back to earth. That’s just a horrific thought.

[Link: www.msnbc.msn.com…]

It’s not news, and hasn’t been news for decades. They drag these stories out every year around the anniversary time.

This guy over-dramatizes a bit too… It wasn’t an explosion, it was a disintegration. The bottom end of the external tank fell off at speed after being blowtorched by the SRB, and then the tank basically collapsed nose-to-tail under aerodynamic pressure. One booster rolled upwards, knocked the wing off, then the shuttle turned sideways in the cloud and kind of popped apart… It was a high-speed fly-apart scenario, not a “boom”, although there were explosive effects.

Cause of death was hitting the ocean at 200+mph. There’s no point in beating around the bush.

At least they didn’t republish that fake tabloid “cockpit recorder transcript” which had everyone screaming and crying.