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The astronauts probably survived the explosionand breakup of the shuttle orbiter and could havehad 6 to 15 seconds of "useful consciousness"inside the crew compartment after the blast, saidDr. Joseph Kerwin, an astronaut-physician whoinvestigated the cause of death for the crew.
The force of the crew compartment hitting theocean was so destructive, however, that theprecise cause of death for the crew could not bedetermined, he said.
1:15. The BMW streaks across the Hollywood Hills toward the gigantic Tower Records store on Sunset Boulevard. Molly pops into the dashboard tape deck a cassette by her favorite Los Angeles band, the Rave-Ups. The glove compartment is so stuffed with tapes it won't close, and the...
The fact that the remains of all seven crew members had been recovered from Challenger's heavily damaged crew compartment on the ocean floor was a tribute to the largest underwater search operation in history. Costing some $20 million, the search also retrieved enough of the shuttle's parts to...
Over the Mediterranean, TWA flies daily between Rome, Athens and Cairo. The 727 on which the bombing occurred last Wednesday had started the day in Cairo, stopped at Athens and proceeded to Rome. There it picked up its passengers, most of whom had arrived on a connecting TWA 747 flight...