[Atlas Sneezed]

"It is my understanding the crew compartment, a pressure vessel within the air frame, survived the Challenger explosion. I'm not sure about impact details."

As I recently posted in another thread, I spoke last spring on a cruise vacation with a gentleman who was a high official at NASA through Apollo, who had listened to the Challenger voice tapes. The crew survived until impact with the water.

(And as I am an avid student of the space program, and have read most of what has been written, I am certain that the gentleman, who was fighting cancer at the time, was telling the truth, based on our extensive and wide ranging discussion of many other aspects of the program.)

[Joe Hadenuf]

If debris had hit one of the wings on take off, the crew had to be concerned about that during the mission and it had to be an issue during the entire flight. Does anyone else know if the crew and ground control had been discussing this issue during the mission

Thanks to anyone that can answer this.......

ANYONE???

[lodwick]

Thanks much for the Challenger information.