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In “Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space,” Adam Higginbotham provides the most definitive account of the explosion that took the lives of the seven-person crew ...
Adam Higginbotham (born 1968 in Somerset) [1] is a British journalist who is the former U.S. correspondent for The Sunday Telegraph Magazine and former editor-in-chief of The Face. He has also served as a contributing writer for The New Yorker, Wired, and The New York Times. [2] [3]
The book reviewed by Slade, Challenger by Adam Higginbotham, explained, "The volume of air remaining in Smith’s pack also revealed that someone had been breathing from the supply for around two and a half minutes: almost exactly the length of time it took for the sundered crew cabin to fall the twelve miles from its apogee to the surface of ...
The Dearborn Public Library is hosting a talk with the author of the new book on the Challenger disaster. Here's how to attend.
The commission found that the immediate cause of the Challenger accident was a failure in the O-rings sealing the aft field joint on the right solid rocket booster, causing pressurized hot gases and eventually flame to "blow by" the O-ring and contact the adjacent external tank, causing structural failure. The failure of the O-rings was ...
The race in Nevada between Senator Catherine Cortez Masto and challenger Adam Laxalt also appears to be deadlocked. In Pennsylvania, Democrat John Fetterman has watched his lead over challenger ...
Adam Ehrlich Sachs – short story writer, 2016; Adam Sacks – illustrator, 2022; Mike Sacks – writer, 2012, 2021–2022; Oliver Sacks – neurologist, writer, 1992–2019 [43] Ira Sadoff – poet, 2016; Doreen St. Félix – staff writer, television critic, 2015–2022; Marina Sagona – illustrator 1994–2000; Ioanna Sakellaraki ...
Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.