A TV crew was looking for a World War II-era plane. They found part of the Challenger.

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Nearly 37 years after the space shuttle Challenger exploded, a television crew found a remnant of the shuttle during an underwater dive.

The artifact was discovered by a documentary television crew that was looking for World War II-era plane debris, NASA confirmed in a news release on Thursday. Divers spotted "a large humanmade object covered partially by sand on the seafloor,” and the team contacted NASA because the materials looked modern and were located close to Florida’s Space Coast.

The crew was filming for an upcoming series that will air on the History Channel. They began diving near Florida's coast in March.

"The significance of this large section of Challenger's structure was readily apparent,” Mike Barnette, who led the team team that made the discovery, said in a news release from the History Channel. “We recognized the necessity of bringing this find to the immediate attention of NASA."




A TV crew was looking for a World War II-era plane. They found part of the Challenger. (msn.com)

 

[crossovernegro]

Damn, yeah just read about this yesterday.
Off topic a bit, but found out last year or so that the crew was alive and conscious pretty much all the way down until impact with the water.

Back then when it happened, the word was that they died up there when the initial explosion happened.


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[Dr. Truth]

Damn, yeah just read about this yesterday.
Off topic a bit, but found out last year or so that the crew was alive and conscious pretty much all the way down until impact with the water.

Back then when it happened, the word was that they died up there when the initial explosion happened.


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How would anyone know that !?

 

[ZuluSam]

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How would anyone know that !?

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[Dr. Truth]

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What audio?

 

[Lurk Diggler]

Damn I saw that live on tv in like 3rd grade sad then still sad now but also interesting piece of history I wonder if they will try to bring it to surface

 

[Flawless]

Damn, yeah just read about this yesterday.
Off topic a bit, but found out last year or so that the crew was alive and conscious pretty much all the way down until impact with the water.

Back then when it happened, the word was that they died up there when the initial explosion happened.


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yeah right, they probably died horribly being burnt alive.

 

[lightbright]

How would anyone know that !?

Condition of the body when found...... like you don't get water in the tissue lung alveoli after death or shit like that.... that's why they got those like death campuses where they place bodies in the outdoors and such to observe their decay under myriads of conditions
sidebar: a body that has no smoke in the lung tissue after a fire was dead before the fire and shit like that.... they got ways of knowing and confirming

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Like with a plane breaking up..... audio would've been gone pretty much immediately after the main explosion with nothing to power the audio equipment, they might've been alive right after but unconscious


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[crossovernegro]

They could tell that the crew was trying to use certain controls to try and right the capsule or whatever they were in as it was falling.

Doing this on phone so forgive me if I fuck up the link. This is the quickest one I can find


https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news...n=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target

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[crossovernegro]

Nope....impact killed them

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yeah right, they probably died horribly being burnt alive.

 

[Flawless]

Nope....impact killed them

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Unless they splattered immediately they were probably alive for awhile.

 

[blackbull1970]

The video of the explosion shows the forward part of the shuttle where the crew sits separate from the main body.

So good chance some of them may have survived the initial explosion.

Even if they all survived and where conscious, the way they are strapped into those seats along with being in their spacesuits. No way could they have gotten out.

Plus, there wasn’t any parachutes on the Shuttle.

 

[Curtwalk]

I remember we went on a field trip to the junior college planetarium and we where inside when it happened.
They were showing an animated diagram of the route the space shuttle was gonna take and what they were gonna be doing each day on the mission. Then we went outside and some college kid was running around yelling that the shuttle had exposed.
On a side note a teacher from my school was almost on that flight. She made it into the top 30 before she got cut. I remember some serious looking nasa and Government officials came to the school to interview her ass.

 

[Dr. Truth]

The video of the explosion shows the forward part of the shuttle where the crew sits separate from the main body.

So good chance some of them may have survived the initial explosion.

Even if they all survived and where conscious, the way they are strapped into those seats along with being in their spacesuits. No way could they have gotten out.

Plus, there wasn’t any parachutes on the Shuttle.

Where? All I see are the two rockets that fall off once in space going in opposite directions. Where’s the actual ship after the fireball?

 

[crossovernegro]

Yeah once it happened it was game over, falling at that speed and uncontrolled....at least a jet pilot can try to land if shit goes wrong in flight, but the shuttle was getting sent up on boosters when it happened, so no way to right the orbiter and get it flying.


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The video of the explosion shows the forward part of the shuttle where the crew sits separate from the main body.

So good chance some of them may have survived the initial explosion.

Even if they all survived and where conscious, the way they are strapped into those seats along with being in their spacesuits. No way could they have gotten out.

Plus, there wasn’t any parachutes on the Shuttle.