Challenger a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space
"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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2024.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Challenger : |b a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space / |c Adam Higginbotham. |
| 250 | |a First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Avid Reader Press, |c 2024. | |
| 300 | |a xi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : |b illustrations (chiefly color) ; |c 24 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-542) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
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| 650 | 0 | |a Space shuttles |x Accidents |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Space shuttles. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Space vehicle accidents. | |
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