[BuckeyeTexan]

I got it covered.

[mkjessup]

LOL, you know we’re not the only two Freepers to have that thought, just the only two daring to post them!

My best to you and yours for a Happy 2009.

MKJ

[curling]

I’d heard rumors that the Challenger bodies were packed into 50 gallon drums then whisked away for discrete autopsies. This was done so NASA could cover their butts saying that the crew “died quicky”, sparing themselves from additional political fallout as well as elevated lawsuit damages for Morton-Thiokol).

Apparently, Some of the crew had activated their emergency life support packs and were essentially alive until impact with the ocean (what a terrible way to go...the descent took several minutes).

In the Columbia incident, even if the crew was fully protected (space suits), the temperatures, pressures and speed would had spelled their doom. In this case, a quick death mercifully spared them from the horror.

[going hot]

I can chip in.