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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Higginbotham, Adam (Author)
Other title:True story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
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.