Jeff Spry is an award-winning screenwriter and veteran freelance journalist covering TV, movies, video games, books, and comics. His work has appeared at SYFY Wire, Inverse, Collider, Bleeding Cool and elsewhere.
The Challenger STS-51L mission clears the tower at Launch Complex 39B at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Jan. 28, 1986, a new non-fiction account of the historic event arrives today from Adam Higginbotham, the New York Times bestselling author of"Midnight in Chernobyl." from its inception before, and in the wake of, the Apollo moon missions, which made a final lunar landing in December of 1972.
Told with a remarkable storytelling flair, Higginbotham's exhaustive volume is a brilliant effort of investigative journalism that stands as a riveting examination of the complex costs of innovation, imagination, political positioning, clashing personalities, mismanagement and a series of fateful internal NASA decisions that partly led to the spacecraft's sudden destruction upon liftoff.
"On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of a crew including New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like the assassination of JFK, the Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th century history — one that forever changed the way America thought of itself and its optimistic view of the future.
"Based on extensive archival research and meticulous, original reporting, 'Challenger: A True Story of Heroism & Disaster on the Edge of Space' follows a handful of central protagonists—including each of the seven members of the doomed crew—through the years leading up to the accident, a detailed account of the tragedy itself, and into the investigation that followed.
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