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skinte1 t1_j2bjqh4 wrote

Reply to comment by BiBoFieTo in TIL An American Flag survived the Challenger explosion and was the flag raised at the 2002 Winter Olympics by I_like_the_titanic

Jokes aside the crew likely did survive the "explosion" (In reality the Shuttle was torn apart from aerodynamic forces) since several of the emergency airpacks had been activated manually in the seconds after the shuttle broke apart. The impact with the water at over 200 mph was what killed them.

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