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New book 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space' out today
SPACE.com· 1 day agoWeaving together an incredibly detailed and compelling narrative of NASA's tragic space shuttle ...
New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)
Space via Yahoo News· 1 day agoAdam Higginbotham was out with his first book when he got the idea. "People often asked me whether I...
Fiction: ‘This Strange Eventful History’ by Claire Messud
The Wall Street Journal· 7 days agoLate in Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History,” the aging patriarch François Cassar relates...
‘Challenger’ Review: How the Space Shuttle Disaster Happened
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoIt was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center...
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
New York Post· 3 days agoSix months prior to the Challenger disaster, booster rocket engineer Roger Boisjoly had written to...
Book Review: 'Challenger' is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy
Boston.com· 2 days agoAdam Higginbotham writes the history of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.
A love letter to journalism: The Bee opinion editor recalls highs, lows of 50-year career
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 3 days agoI interviewed wardens in the main hallway of the maximum-security prison in Lompoc as some of the...
What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
New York Times· 3 days agoAs recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error. Sixteen...
‘American Bloods’ Review: All in the Family
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoJogging through a remnant of New England forest once considered by the Puritans to be the devil’s lair, John Kaag encounters a wolf. Among Thomas’s other...
‘Late Admissions’ Review: Glenn Loury’s Rise, Fall and Rise
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoIn 1984, when he was 35, Glenn Loury made Martin Luther King’s widow cry. A young black professor at...