Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space / Adam Higginbotham.
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting--a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
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| Other title: | True story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Avid Reader Press,
2024.
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| Edition: | First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Part one: The last man on the Moon. Fire on Pad 34
- Whitey on the Moon
- The spaceplane
- The most complicated machine in history
- The future black spaceman
- The FNGs
- Never a straight answer
- The great tile caper
- Part two: The high frontier. When thoughts turn inward
- The first American woman in space
- The squeeze
- The black cat
- The human satellite
- Acceptable risk
- The teachernauts
- Abort to orbit
- The mystery of Hanger AF
- The back gate
- The ultimate field trip
- Part three: The 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.
- The commission
- The truth
- Apocalypse
- The long fall
- Epilogue.