...a superb diagnosis of one of NASA’s darkest moments.

Higginbotham is an intrepid journalist and skillful storyteller who takes care to humanize the dozens of major and minor players involved in NASA’s many successful, and occasionally catastrophic, space missions.

Adam Higginbotham provides the most definitive account of the explosion that took the lives of the seven-person crew. He also meticulously explores the missteps and negligence that allowed the tragedy to occur.

Higginbotham has to work doubly hard to make it all comprehensible.

Higginbotham’s comprehensive and affecting recounting and explanation illuminates a tragedy that was entirely preventable..

Hefty, compelling and propulsive, Challenger overflows with revelatory details.

Gripping.

A deeply researched, fluently written study in miscommunication, hubris, and technological overreach..