Challenger : a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space / Adam Higginbotham.
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9781982176617
- ISBN: 198217661X
- ISBN: 9781982176624
- ISBN: 1982176628
- Physical Description: xi, 561 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), photographs (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
- Publisher: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2024.
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- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [533]-542) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Cast of characters -- 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: 11:38 a.m. -- The commission -- The truth -- Apocalypse -- The long fall -- Epilogue.
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| Jacksonville Main Library | 363.124 HIG (Text) | 36015002718738 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Swansboro Branch Library | 363.124 HIG (Text) | 36015000467684 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
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| Belhaven Public Library | 363.12 (Text) | 38344400211486 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Benhaven Public Library | 363.124 Hig (Text) | 33630005366930 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Black Mountain Library | 363.124 HIG (Text) | 0020660301951 | Adult Nonfiction | Checked out | 08/21/2026 |
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