ur "The Explosion" av Jonathan Safran Foer

We know, now, that the Challenger didn't explode, per se, but break apart.
Four of the crew members initiated their emergency oxygen control as they
descended to the ocean, and while Nasa refused to release the transcripts
of the voice recordnings, it did acknowledge that the astronaouts where
"aware of their fates", and that one could be heard "Please hold my hand".