It may have broken up below the karman line, but space isn’t a hard cutoff. The atmosphere was still far too thin to not need a pressure suit at that altitude, and both missions failed due to problems that would come into effect upon performing the re-entry maneuver.
The only people to have ever died in space were the three crewmembers of Soyuz 11.
And the Columbus space shuttle.
No, Columbia had reentered the atmosphere already, so not in space
It may have broken up below the karman line, but space isn’t a hard cutoff. The atmosphere was still far too thin to not need a pressure suit at that altitude, and both missions failed due to problems that would come into effect upon performing the re-entry maneuver.