Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A space shuttle launches into a blue sky filled with birds. Weaving together an incredibly detailed and compelling narrative of ...

British journalist Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster," returns with his exhaustively-researched new book, "Challenger: A ...

The year 1986 was notable for two big disasters, both of them attributable to human error and bureaucratic negligence at competing super powers: the Chernobyl nuclear ...

The modern world runs on a kind of secular faith. Most of us turn on the faucet and expect water, enter an elevator and expect it to take us to our destination, drive over a bridge and expect it to ...

More than 38 years after the space shuttle Challenger explosion, a new book explores the events leading up to the 1986 disaster and examines the complicated history of the country’s space program. On ...

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The space shuttle Challenger explodes moments after launch on Jan. 28, 1986 from the Kennedy Space Center, killing its seven crewmembers. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge ...

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We may receive an affiliate commission from anything you buy from this article. British journalist Adam Higginbotham, author of "Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear ...

Adam Higginbotham is a journalist and author. His previous book, Midnight in Chernobyl, was the winner of the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction. He lives in New York. The Inside Story ...