Books Book Review: ‘Challenger’ is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy Adam Higginbotham writes the history of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster in ...

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When the Challenger space shuttle exploded a little over a minute after its launch in 1986, it pierced the dreams of millions about who watched the tragedy unfold live on television. It also eventu… ...

A new book details the errors that went into the disaster that doomed the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986. AP At 8.15 a.m. on Jan. 28, 1986, New Hampshire social-studies teacher Christa McAuliffe ...

Most schoolchildren in the United States, like me, were officially skipping lessons to watch that launch. As Adam Higginbotham recounts in “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on ...

More than 38 years after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, a new book explores the events leading up to the 1986 disaster and examines the complicated history of the country’s space program.

Higginbotham’s book, like his previous one, Midnight in Chernobyl, is a gruesome and meticulous reconstruction of a 1986 disaster. Challenger’s failure is a story of advanced technology that ...

This is an edition of the Books Briefing, our editors’ weekly guide to the best in books. Sign up for it here. There were moments in Adam Higginbotham’s new book Challenger that made me gasp ...

“Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” by Adam Higginbotham, is a superb diagnosis of one of NASA’s darkest moments, the mission that ended in an explosion ...

The author of a new book about the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster is coming to Central Florida for a signing event. Simply titled, “Challenger,” Adam Higginbotham took four years to pore ...

The space shuttle Challenger, visible in the mist as it is being moved to the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Fla., in January 1986. Photo: Space Frontiers/Getty Images ...

Book Review: 'Challenger' is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy Adam Higginbotham writes the history of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster in ...