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Originally Posted by ken0042
Now, something I heard afterwards and haven't heard since; was a report that 3 of the astronauts survived the initial explosion, and that one of them even survived impact with the ocean for a short period of time. The explanation of it was that one of them was attempting to communicate an SOS, but was using an internal recorder rather than a radio transmitter.
The other thing I recall from that day; apparently 2 of the chase plane pilots climbed as high as they could and then ditched their planes in an attempt to free fall through the debris in hopes of catching a survivor, and then parachuting down. They were showing the debris falling when all of a sudden you could see 2 parachutes coming down. Everybody on the TV was rejoicing that some of the astronauts had survived, but it turned out it wasn't them.
As somebody who also had always wanted to be an astronaut, it was an especially sad day for me.
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No, that bit of morbid and tragic information is most likely faked and created by the tabloids (first published in Weekly World News). Fortunately, the crew likely lost conscious due to lost pressure.
http://web.archive.org/web/200106061...~radams/chall/
Is pretty comprehensive on the issue
http://web.archive.org/web/200402160...ocs/kerwin.txt
Is the conclusion of the investigation into the module which hit the ocean after 2 minutes of terminal velocity freefall form 65,000 feet with a force of 200 Gs on impact making any survival impossible.