I still get a shiver down my spine whenever I hear the words, “Challenger, go at throttle-up.” And not in a good way. This will be my next book to get off of my teetering #TBRpile #Goodreads #ReadingChallenge #CurrentlyReading #Bibliophile #BookLovers #Bookworm #ChallengerDisaster #SpaceShuttle #Challenger #AdamHigginbotham

A posthumous memoir by the Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, which detailed his fight against autocracy and corruption in Russia and was published eight months after he died in prison, won a National Book Critics Circle Award for autobiography.

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‘Challenger’ is a fresh telling of one of NASA’s darkest moments

Adam Higginbotham shows how the agency stumbled into calamity in a compelling and exhaustively researched chronicle.

The Washington Post
“‘It’s still a bit of Russian roulette,’ the chief engineer at the California plant said. ‘You’ll probably make it. Five out of six times you do, playing Russian roulette.’“ - ‘Russian roulette’ is not a term you want to hear from your engineer on launch day… #adamHigginbotham #spaceShuttle #Challenger #RussianRoulette “The space shuttle that never came home” https://wapo.st/3JRYfkV
The space shuttle that never came home

Seventy-three seconds after liftoff, Challenger exploded before millions of American eyes. Here is the story of its final moments.

The Washington Post
Latest books: Midnight in Chernobyl, Red Team Blues, and more

We’re nearly three months down for 2024, and I’m still sticking with my resolution to spend less time watching stuff on streaming and more time reading. So far, that’s going pretty well. Since the last update, I’ve finished eight books. That’s 14 for the year, which is probably close to what I read in all […]

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