Devlin’s men began retrieving what was left of the seven members of the Challenger crew later that same day: the astronauts aboard wanted them brought up immediately, afraid that someone might be lost. What they found was no longer recognizable as human. Two scuba divers found parts of Dick Scobee, Mike Smith, and Christa McAuliffe still strapped into their seats, tangled among the debris, but identifiable by the name tags on their flight suits; another, winched down toward the seabed on a mechanical diving stage, discovered the remains of Judy Resnik, carried by the current and caught by the
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