Publisher's Synopsis
This book is an account of the events leading up to and following the Challenger space shuttle disaster. It attempts to chart how politics, deception and greed led to tragedy. Interviews with leading astronauts and the widow of the Challenger pilot, Mike Smith about previous safety violations highlight anxieties about the launch.;The author, a prize-winning journalist who was present at Cape Canaveral to report on Challenger's "teacher-in-space" flight on the day of the disaster, puts forward a different view from that expressed in the press or by the Rogers Commission.
