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🚀 Book Review Launching 🚀

For 2026, I'm starting a run of short book reviews and I'm kicking things off with Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham.
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The book traces the rise of American spaceflight, the Challenger tragedy, and the investigations that followed, exposing hard truths behind one of the twentieth century's biggest institutional failures. Higginbotham perfectly sums up the tension of the space race with Alan Shepard's famous words: "When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch aboard his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, 'The fact that every part of this ship was built by the lowest bidder.'" Deeply researched, gripping, and unsettling, this is essential reading for anyone who loves real-life stories of exploration and consequence.
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