Get Real Non-Fiction Book Group: Challenger by Adam Higginbotham

Please join our reading group on Tuesday, January 14th in the HCH Community Room for a discussion of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham. Books are available at the library for check out and there is no registration for this event. Please stop by the library or contact Cathleen@hchlibrary.org to reserve a copy of the book. 

 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 of Americans witnessed the tragic deaths of the crew, which included New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe. The Challenger disaster is a defining moment in 20th-century history—one that forever changed the way America thought of itself and its optimistic view of the future. Yet the full story of what happened, and why, has never been told.

The definitive, compelling, and exhaustively researched minute-by-minute account of the Challenger disaster, based on fascinating and new archival research—a riveting history that reads like a thriller.