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6) Challenger
Author
Series
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
24 pages : colored illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Early readers will learn about the science behind the Challenger disaster through carefully leveled text and photo illustrations. Includes glossary and index."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Examines the tragic mission of the space shuttle Challenger, including the brave crew that flew the shuttle and lost their lives, the causes of the explosion, and the investigation after the disaster"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Cash, Fitch, and Bird Thomas are three siblings in seventh grade together in Park, Delaware. In 1986, as the country waits expectantly for the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger, they each struggle with their own personal anxieties. Cash, who loves basketball but has a newly broken wrist, is in danger of failing seventh grade for the second time. Fitch spends every afternoon playing Major Havoc at the arcade on Main. And Bird, his twelve-year-old...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
277 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
January 28, 1986. NASA's space shuttle Challenger exploded after blasting off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America's "Teacher in Space" was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember. Cook tells us what really happened on that ill-fated, unforgettable day. He traces the pressures that triggered the fatal order to launch on an ice-cold Florida morning. He takes readers inside...
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus seventy-three seconds after launch, the unthinkable happened......
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--
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