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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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