Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
Award History
| Award | Year | Status |
|---|---|---|
| National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction | 2024 | Winner |
| Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
Adam Higginbotham's exhaustive account of the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster draws on hundreds of hours of interviews and declassified documents to reconstruct the engineering failures, bureaucratic pressures, and human decisions that led to the explosion and its aftermath. Winner of the NBCC Award for Nonfiction 2024 and the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction.
About the Author
Adam Higginbotham is a British journalist and author who specializes in narrative nonfiction about technology, disaster, and American culture. He has been a contributing writer for Wired, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, and GQ, among other publications. Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (2019) was a New York Times bestseller and won the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction and numerous other prizes. Read more →
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