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[Jabberwocky]

Wow, almost 30 years ago.

I remember then stopping the tv shows to show the news live

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[What's Burning?]

I remember watching the launch live on TV and seeing the starburst of broken up part and realizing that there was zero chance that anyone would survive.

[Jabberwocky]

I remember a parachute in the flames and thinking maybe someone could be ok

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[operaman]

I remember watching the launch live on TV and seeing the starburst of broken up part and realizing that there was zero chance that anyone would survive.

Me too, but I kept looking through the smoke for the escape pod. There had to be an escape pod ... right.

[zurich_allan]

There sort of was an escape pod... sort of.... the cabin was reinforced and designed to withstand certain types of explosion, but tragically, the thrusters that could have allowed the crew to descend safely were blown off due to the severity of the explosion.

What is even more horrific to me is that there is a greater than 50/50 chance that more than one of the crew were actually conscious for at least part going by the evidence of crew activity found when the cabin was found, if not the entire freefall of the cabin (which was intact following the explosion, though unknown if it remained pressurised or not). I looked into the whole disaster 6 or 7 years ago and was shocked with some of what they discovered. Part of the problem was that they didn't locate the cabin until over a month after the disaster, on the bottom of the ocean, and the condition of the bodies / crew remains meant that finding a definitive cause of death was impossible, but oxygen masks had been activated and oxygen used, various controls that it would have been impossible to have been altered without crew intervention had been altered. I hope to God that the cabin had lost pressure, as all of the crew would have been unconscious on impact with the water, otherwise there's a very very high chance that at least one was still alive on the 200+mph impact...

[operaman]

There sort of was an escape pod... sort of.... the cabin was reinforced and designed to withstand certain types of explosion, but tragically, the thrusters that could have allowed the crew to descend safely were blown off due to the severity of the explosion.

What is even more horrific to me is that there is a greater than 50/50 chance that more than one of the crew were actually conscious for at least part going by the evidence of crew activity found when the cabin was found, if not the entire freefall of the cabin (which was intact following the explosion, though unknown if it remained pressurised or not). I looked into the whole disaster 6 or 7 years ago and was shocked with some of what they discovered. Part of the problem was that they didn't locate the cabin until over a month after the disaster, on the bottom of the ocean, and the condition of the bodies / crew remains meant that finding a definitive cause of death was impossible, but oxygen masks had been activated and oxygen used, various controls that it would have been impossible to have been altered without crew intervention had been altered. I hope to God that the cabin had lost pressure, as all of the crew would have been unconscious on impact with the water, otherwise there's a very very high chance that at least one was still alive on the 200+mph impact...

Not a pleasant thought at all.

[Jabberwocky]

Wasn't it caused by a faulty 20cent O ring or something silly

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