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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
Newsgroups: sci.space,sci.space.shuttle
Subject: Re: space news from Aug 24 AW&ST
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Date: Fri, 16-Oct-87 12:32:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 16 12:32:14 1987
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> )Aviation Leak spent one paragraph discussing Joe Kerwin's medical report on
> )the deaths of the Challenger crew; WSN printed the whole thing.
> 
> I missed this.  Can anyone post a short summary of what it said?

I posted one at the time, but don't have it handy (and probably wouldn't just
repost it anyway).  Very briefly:  the crew died from the water impact; they
were conscious for at least a few seconds after the orbiter broke up; it was
not possible to determine for sure whether the cabin had lost pressure, but
it seemed likely; if the cabin lost pressure, the crew would have lost
consciousness fairly quickly and would not have regained it by time of impact.
-- 
"Mir" means "peace", as in           |  Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
"the war is over; we've won".        | {allegra,ihnp4,decvax,utai}!utzoo!henry