This cover image released by Avid Reader shows "Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space" by Adam Higginbotham Avid Reader via AP ...

it is with deep, heartfelt sorrow. I address you here this afternoon at 11:40 a.m. This morning Space program experienced a national tragedy with the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

It was so cold on the night of Jan. 27, 1986, that officials at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center feared the water pipes on the space shuttle launchpad would freeze. To protect the plumbing, they decided ...

As recounted in Adam Higginbotham’s “Challenger,” the 1986 tragedy that riveted a nation was a preventable lesson in hubris and human error. By Rachel Slade ...