Book excerpt: "Challenger" by Adam Higginbotham

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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 True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" (Simon & Schuster), about the 1986 space shuttle disaster.  

Read an excerpt below.