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Four three two one and liftoff left
off of the twenty fifth Space Shuttle mission

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and it has cleared as the tower. Welcome to the WBZ Book Club.

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I'm Jordan Rich. We all remember
where we are on key dates in our

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history, and one of them is
January twenty eighth, nineteen eighty six,

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when just seventy three seconds into its
flight, the Space Shuttle Challenger came apart

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and killed all seven aboard, including
the New Hampshire school teacher Krista mccallaugh well.

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The book Challenger, A True Story
of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge

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of Space by Adam Higginbotham is probably
the most extensive historical look at what happened

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to the Challenger, taking us through
the years well before the disaster. The

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heroism of the astronauts counterbalanced with huberous
saving money at the expense of safety,

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and those who kept quiet knowing the
Shuttle could be doomed. Challenger, A

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True Story of Heroism and Disaster on
the Edge of Space. The author Adam

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Higginbotham, and that's the book Club, WBZ, Boston's news radio