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Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space / Adam Higginbotham.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Circulating Collection TL867 .H54 2024
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Higginbotham, Adam, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Challenger (Spacecraft)--Accidents.
- Challenger (Spacecraft).
- Space shuttles--Accidents--United States.
- Space shuttles.
- Space vehicle accidents.
- space shuttles.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- "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"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Miller Fund bookplate.
- Other Format:
- Online version:
- Higginbotham, Adam. Challenger.
- Online version: Higginbotham, Adam. Challenger.
- ISBN:
- 9781982176617
- 198217661X
- 9781982176624
- 1982176628
- OCLC:
- 1405187636
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