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New book 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space' out today
SPACE.com· 21 hours 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· 17 hours 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· 6 days agoLate in Claire Messud’s “This Strange Eventful History,” the aging patriarch François Cassar relates...
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.
‘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...
What We Didn’t Learn From a Space Shuttle Disaster
New York Times· 2 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...
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...
‘Cloudland Revisited’ Review: S.J. Perelman’s Time Machine
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoS.J. Perelman rightly belongs on the Mount Rushmore of American humorists. Like many writers of his...
‘The Shooter at Midnight’ Review: A Slow Harvest of Justice
The Wall Street Journal· 5 days agoThe St. Louis defense attorney Bob Ramsey was often drawn to underdog clients, but he became...