Challenger: An Evening with Adam Higginbotham

On January 28, 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people on board. Millions witnessed the tragic deaths of the crew, including the beloved schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. Like the assassination of JFK, the Challenger disaster was a defining moment in 20th-century history—one that changed the way that an optimistic America thought of itself. Yet the full story has never been told. Higginbotham, New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl, has now written the definitive, “compelling, and exhaustively researched” (The Washington Post) account of the disaster, based on fascinating and new archival research. It’s a riveting history that reads like a “heart-pounding thriller” (Atlantic). Join Higginbotham as he discusses the fraught history of the American shuttle program, and tells the moving stories of the NASA men and women whose lives were forever altered by this disaster.

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