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6 days ago | 
slate.com | Adam Higginbotham |David Plotz |Emily Bazelon |John Dickerson
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Adam Higginbotham |David Plotz |Emily Bazelon |John Dickerson
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
onet.pl | Adam Higginbotham
Załoga misji 51-L w "białym pokoju" przy włazie do Challengera, w przerwie w ćwiczebnej procedurze odliczania – ostatniej próbie przed startem, 9 stycznia 1986 r. Adam Higginbotham, autor znakomitej książki "Katastrofa Challengera" (Wydawnictwo SQN), zgłębił historie katastrof kosmicznych wahadłowców, podążył śladami członków załogi i opisał drogę, którą przebyli, by wsiąść na pokład Challengera, a następnie minuta po minucie opisał przebieg tragedii i szczegółowo przedstawił późniejsze śledztwo.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
smithsonianmag.com | Adam Higginbotham |Daniel Lewis |Joe Spring |Dan Falk
Smart News | From a deep dive on a fatal space shuttle disaster to a study of a dozen iconic trees, these are our favorite titles this year This year, millions of viewers looked to the sky during a momentous day in April to view a stunning total solar eclipse. During select nights throughout the year, they gazed at spectacular auroras. As record heat spread over our planet again this year, Atlantic hurricanes fueled by warm waters hit the United States hard.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
theatlantic.com | Kaveh Akbar |Percival L. Everett |Jo Hamya |Eliana Hernández-Pachón |Adam Higginbotham |Rachel Kushner | +5 more
The books that made us think the most this year
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
lawfaremedia.org | Shane Harris |Adam Higginbotham
The explosion of the Space Shuttle Challenger in January 1986 riveted millions of Americans, who watched the horrific event live on television. What they didn’t know then was that the tragedy was largely preventable, a disastrous result of hubris and “magical thinking” as much as flawed engineering.
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Jul 28, 2024 | 
audiofilemagazine.com | Adam Higginbotham
Jacques Roy adeptly treads the line between measured and conversational in this excellent performance of Higginbotham's investigation of the 1986 CHALLENGER catastrophe. Roy maintains the listener's attention through detailed accounts of the science and engineering underlying the NASA space program while also bringing to life the people involved.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
airmail.news | Adam Higginbotham
It was late on the night of January 27, 1986, when Roger Boisjoly realized that something terrible was about to happen. A 47-year-old senior scientist at Morton Thiokol’s Wasatch Division, a NASA contractor based in northern Utah, Boisjoly had spent months battling his superiors, trying—with increasing desperation—to draw attention to what he had come to believe was a potentially catastrophic fault with the Challenger Space Shuttle.
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Jun 13, 2024 | 
uk.bookshop.org | Promoting Books |Adam Higginbotham
'Gripping' ED CAESAR • 'Masterly' GEOFF DYER • 'Incredible' TIM HARFORD • 'A universal story that transcends time' NEW YORK TIMES • 'Superb' DAILY TELEGRAPH • 'We know what’s going to happen, but feel the suspense nonetheless' THE TIMES** THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER **The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research – this is riveting history that reads like a thriller.
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Jun 2, 2024 | 
newsexplorer.net | John Kaag |Adam Higginbotham |Victor Davis Hanson |Amir Alexander
By John Kaag | Farrar, Straus and GirouxHow the Blood clan wove itself first into the settling of New England and later into the founding of a new nation-and into the conflicts that followed. Review by Randall FullerRead the reviewBy Adam Higginbotham | Avid ReaderRules were observed, protocols followed, but the launch of the space shuttle Challenger still turned to tragedy. Review by James B.
