Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space

Higginbotham, Adam, author.

First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.

Book

New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.

xi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm

"[A] definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting"-- Provided by publisher.

Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents.

Space shuttles -- Accidents -- United States.

Space shuttles.

Space vehicle accidents.

last man on the moon. Fire on Pad 34 ; Whitey on the moon ; spaceplane ; most complicated machine in history ; future black spaceman ; FNGs ; Never a straight answer ; great tile caper -- high frontier. When thoughts turn inward ; first American woman in space ; squeeze ; black cat ; human satellite ; Acceptable risk ; teachernauts ; Abort to orbit ; mystery of Hanger AF ; back gate ; ultimate field trip -- face of God. Friday, January 10, 1986: 7:00 a.m. ; Monday, January 27, 1986: 8:00 a.m. ; Monday, January 27, 1986: 7:55 p.m. ; Tuesday, January 28, 1986: 2:00 a.m. ; Tuesday, January 28, 1986: 11:28 a.m. ; commission ; truth ; Apocalypse ; long fall --

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