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• Disaster Strikes!

  the Most Dangerous Space Missions of All Time

  Kluger, Jeffrey,

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  A collection of stories about space missions gone wrong.

• Truth, Lies, and O-rings

  Inside the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster

  McDonald, Allan J.

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  On a cold January morning in 1986, NASA launched the Space Shuttle Challenger, despite warnings against doing so by many individuals, including Allan McDonald. The fiery destruction of Challenger on live television moments after launch remains an…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Challenger Disaster

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  On the eve of the Challenger explosion in 1986 one engineer goes to the extreme to stop the launch. This hotheaded engineer makes a desperate race against the clock to call off the billion-dollar Challenger launch, convinced the O-ring seals would…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Challenger Explosion

  Baxter, Roberta, 1952-

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  Across the globe, devastating disasters have changed the course of history. This title brings the challenger explosion to life with well-researched, clearly written informational text, primary sources with accompanying questions, charts, graphs,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Complete Book of Spaceflight

  From Apollo 1 to Zero Gravity

  Darling, David J.

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  A commanding encyclopedia of the history and principles of spaceflight-from earliest conceptions to faster-than-light galaxy-hopping

• Failure Is Not An Option

  Mission Control From Mercury to Apollo 13 and Beyond

  Kranz, Gene

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  This memoir of a veteran NASA flight director tells riveting stories from the early days of the Mercury program through Apollo 11 (the moon landing) and Apollo 13, for both of which Kranz was flight director.

• Bringing Columbia Home

  the Untold Story of a Lost Space Shuttle and Her Crew

  Leinbach, Michael D.,

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  On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. Leinbach shares the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Too Far From Home

  a Story of Life and Death in Space

  Jones, Chris (Chris Alexander)

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  An incredible, true-life adventure set on the most dangerous frontier of all—outer space.

• Christa McAuliffe

  a Space Biography

  Jeffrey, Laura S.

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• Christa McAuliffe

  Reach for the Stars

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