Challenger: An American Tragedy: The Inside Story from Launch Control

by Hugh Harris

The former launch commentator "offers a personal--and sometimes painful--look back at one of the darkest chapters in US human spaceflight" (Space.com).

On January 28, 1986, the space shuttle Challenger launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Seventy-three seconds after launch, the fiery breach of a solid motor joint caused a rupture of the propellant tanks, and a stunned nation watched as flames engulfed the craft,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1504073916
• ISBN13: 9781504073912
• Release Date: February 2022
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media LLC
• Length: 112 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.3" x 8.0"