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Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham
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When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch aboard his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, “The fact that every part of this ship was built by the low bidder.”
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