It's estimated that the Challenger, riddled with more than 200 bullet holes, hit those...

[last lines] The Voice:
It's estimated that the Challenger, riddled with more than 200 bullet holes, hit those bulldozers at over 185 miles an hour. No one could have survived that impact. But no body was ever found. So what happened to Kowalski? The authorities say he's dead, vaporized in the explosion. Some witnesses swear they saw him bail out and escape with the help of allies in the crowd. Still others claim that he and his daughter are now living somewhere out west. I don't know. But it's somehow... reassuring that even in this computerized, bar-coded era of databanks and thumbprints, at least a few mysteries still remain