Challenger A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Adam Higginbotham, Jacques Roy

eAudio - 2024

Winner of the 2024 Kirkus Nonfiction Prize • Shortlisted for the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Stunning...A heart-pounding thriller...Challenger is a remarkable book." —The Atlantic"Devastating...A universal story that transcends time." —The New York Times"Dramatic...a moving narrative." —The Wall Street Journal From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, "compelling, and exhaustively researched" (The Washington Post) minute-by-minute account of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating and new archival research—a riveting history that reads like a thriller.On January 28, 1986, just seventy-...three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all... more