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New book 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space' out today
Space via Yahoo News· 7 hours agoAdam Higginbotham's new book "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space"...
New York Times best-selling author revisits 1986 space shuttle tragedy in 'Challenger' (interview)
SPACE.com· 3 hours agoAdam Higginbotham was touring with his first book when got the idea from a frequent question. The...
Fiction: ‘This Strange Eventful History’ by Claire Messud
The Wall Street Journal· 6 days agoLate in Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History,” the aging patriarch François Cassar relates...
Book Review: 'Challenger' is definitive account of shuttle disaster and missteps that led to tragedy
Boston.com· 1 day agoAdam Higginbotham writes the history of the 1986 space shuttle Challenger disaster.
Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy: Why disaster was almost inevitable
New York Post· 2 days agoSix months prior to the Challenger disaster, booster rocket engineer Roger Boisjoly had written to...
‘Challenger’ Review: How the Space Shuttle Disaster Happened
The Wall Street Journal· 4 days agoIt was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center...
What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
New York Times· 1 day agoAs recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error. Sixteen...
A love letter to journalism: The Bee opinion editor recalls highs, lows of 50-year career
Fresno Bee via Yahoo News· 2 days agoI interviewed wardens in the main hallway of the maximum-security prison in Lompoc as some of the...
The Inside Story of the First Untethered Spacewalk
Smithsonian Magazine· 6 days agoThe first space shuttle mission of 1984, the launch of Challenger on the cool, windless morning of Friday, February 3, was apparently perfect—and eagerly trailed by a national press anticipating ...
‘American Bloods’ Review: All in the Family
The Wall Street Journal· 4 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...