The truth about Challenger
By: Randy Avera.
Edition: 1st, special ed.
Publisher: Randolph Pub.; Randolph Pub
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Good Hope, GA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 340
Subjects: Challenger (Spacecraft) -- Accidents.; United States. Presidential Commission on the Space Shuttle Challenger Accident.; Space vehicle accidents -- United States.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:  DEDICATION; title: ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS vii; title: INTRODUCTIONi; title: 1 AMERICA'S SPACE SHUTTLE: THE ICON OF SPACE FLIGHT WORLD RECORDS 1; title: 2 The Columbia LAUNCH BEFORE Challenger7; title: 3 Challenger's 51-L MISSION FIRST COUNTDOWN 17; title: 4 Challenger's 51-L MISSION SECOND AND LAST COUNTDOWN 23; title: 5 THE LAUNCH AND LAST FLIGHT OF Challenger 35; title: 6 DISBELIEF 4 7; title: 7 MY ASSIGNMENT TO THE Challenger INVESTIGATION 55; title: 8 THE FIRST FLATBED TRUCK OF Challenger DEBRIS71; title: 9 LONG DAYS AND NIGHTS WITH Challenger REMAINS 79; title: 10 I'VE LOST MY COLLEAGUES AND THE OTHER ORBITERS 87; title: 11 THE INVESTIGATION: THE LAST JOB OF NASA? 93; title: 12 THE PAIN OF NASA 131; title: 13 NEVER THOUGHT I'D BE DOING THIS 147; title: 14 THE SPARROWS OF Challenger 151; title: 15 THE BURIAL OF Challenger 155; title: 16 PRESIDENT REAGAN'S STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS - AND Challenger209; title: 17 THE INVESTIGATION ENDS 229; title: 18 "RETURN TO FLIGHT," STS-26 235; title: 19 MEMORIES OF THE ASTRONAUTS 245; title: 20 LIFE GOES ON25 1; title: 21 THE TRUTH ABOUT Challenger 261; title: THE AUTHOR'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO THE; title: US CONGRESS AND PRESIDENT274/309; title: PHOTO GALLERY 27 7; title: GLOSSARY: ACRONYMS, SPACE PROGRAM TERMS, ASSORTED SUBJECTS; title: OF ROCKET SCIENCE 313.