re: 33 years ago today. Where were you during the Challenger disaster?

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I didn't realize until I read up on it today it's suspected 4 of the crew survived the initial explosion and were killed by the fall.

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Yeah they tried to keep that hush hush for awhile and the media kept going after them to release more info about what happened to the crew for years afterward.

It's really had to tell. I think they recovered 4 emergency air devices and 3 of them were activated. 2 of them were the commander and pilot's devices. They could not be activated by them, they had to be activated by the people behind them. The pilot's was active, the commander's was the only one not activated from what I remember. So someone turned on the pilot's device behind him. If they lost air pressure at that altitude, they would of been unconscious very quickly, the emergency air was not for loss of pressure. So pretty much everyone that studies it seriously doubts they lost pressure and the windows looked to have survived the break up. G forces of the break up were well within survivability. They hit the ocean so hard though that they just found pieces of them. It's brutal to read about.