Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

By Timothy Sandefur

New York: Avid Reader Press, 2024

570 pp. $35 (hardcover)

None of the millions of people who witnessed the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986, will ever forget the wave of shock and grief that swept over the United States, and the world, on that day. When the shuttle exploded a little more than a minute into its flight—killing seven ast…