I've never seen this before. Mildly NSFW:

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Sophomore year of college, came back to the dorm room between classes and flipped on the TV. The shuttle had just exploded and they were trying to figure out what happened.

IIRC, I skipped the rest of my classes that day and just sat down and watched.

while they may have been alive, they would have been comatose, so they at least didn't know what was happening.

*edit* heh, just read the wiki. I had always heard they would have been unconcious due to lack of pressurization, guess some disagree.

Was that in Wichita?

USame scenario here

And courtesy of the Weekly World News ("LAST WORDS OF CHALLENGER CREW!"):

The following transcript begins two seconds after NASA's official version ends, with pilot Michael Smith saying, " Uh-oh! " Times from the moment of takeoff are shown in minutes and seconds and are approximate.

The sex of the speaker is indicated by M or F.

T+1:15 (M)
What happened? What happened? Oh God, no - no!

T+1:17 (F)
Oh dear God.


T+1:18 (M)
Turn on your air pack! Turn on your air...

T+1:20 (M)
Can't breathe... choking...

T+1:21 (M)
Lift up your visor!

T+1:22 (M/F)
(Screams.) It's hot. (Sobs.) I can't. Don't tell me...God! Do it...now...

T+1:24 (M)
I told them... I told them... Dammit! Resnik don't...

T+1:27 (M)
Take it easy! Move (unintelligible)...

T+1:28 (F)
Don't let me die like this. Not now. Not here...

T+1:31 (M)
Your arm... no... I (extended garble, static)

T+1:36 (F)
I'm... passing... out...

T+1:37 (M)
We're not dead yet.

T+1:40 (M)
If you ever wanted (unintelligible) me a miracle... (unintelligible)... (screams)

T+1:41 (M)
She's... she's... (garble) ... damn!

T+1:50 (M)
Can't breathe...

T+1:51 (M/F)
(screams) Jesus Christ! No!

T+1:54 (M)
She's out.

T+1:55 (M)
Lucky... (unintelligible).

T+1:56 (M)
God. The water... we're dead! (screams)

T+2:00 (F)
Goodbye (sobs)... I love you, I love you...

T+2:03 (M)
Loosen up... loosen up...

T+2:07 (M)
It'll just be like a ditch landing...

T+2:09 (M)
That's right, think positive.

T+2:11 (M)
Ditch procedure...

T+2:14 (M)
No way!

T+2:17 (M)
Give me your hand...

T+2:19 (M)
You awake in there? I... I...

T+2:29 (M)
Our Father... (unintelligible)...

T+2:42 (M)
hallowed be Thy name... (unintelligible).

T+2:58 (M)
The Lord is my shepherd, I shall...not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures... though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil... I will dwell in the house...

T+3:15 to end
None. Static, silence.

http://www.snopes.com/horrors/gruesome/challenger.asp

Gawdamn. I could have done without reading that. Depressing........:deevee:

That's some bad taste. Speaking of which, does anyone know what the last thing said on Challenger was?

— last words recorded from Space Shuttle Challenger before exploding 74 seconds into its flight, 28 January 1986

It's not depressing, it's stupid because it's not real. It's almost comical.

It's also ridiculous that even a shameless tabloid would print something like that, knowingly false.

Is this going to start a round of Challenger jokes? ;)

Yeah, I opened the link after I read it. What a crock.

Watched it live on tv at school. My dad was in the teacher in space program. went to huntsville. thanks god for high blood pressure and bad eyes.

here's some interesting reading

http://www.skygod.com/quotes/lastwords.html

That's the official version. What was actually said by Scobee was: "Okay, let the women drive."