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In article <18626.25e9591a@merrimack.edu> ain149e1@merrimack.edu writes:
>... I BELIEVE (PERSONALLY) THAT THE ASTRONAUTS SURVIVED THE BLAST, BUT
>DROWN WHEN THE SHUTTLE HIT THE WATER.

No, actually, they were killed by the impact when the cabin hit the water.
They were *probably* unconscious from hypoxia, although that is not certain.
It is virtually certain that they were neither killed nor fatally injured
by the breakup itself.  (Technically there was no "blast"; the shuttle did
not explode, it disintegrated.)

(This isn't just personal opinion, it's what the NASA medical/forensic
report concluded.)
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