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teaspoonprice 's review for:
Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
by Adam Higginbotham
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
This was a profoundly unsettling read. I'm fairly uneducated in these fields of space and regulation of space, and I wasn't ready for this eye opener. The ego and inability to reflect on mistakes by the men at the top of this disaster is straight up fucked.
Power corrupts all; this idea has been getting pressed further and further into my head as I grow. There are a few examples of it being wrong, but it just staggers me to realize how little faith we can have in those that hold the cards. Even the scientists and engineers, driven by fact and logic, can lose it in the face of embarrassment or loss of victory.
Power corrupts all; this idea has been getting pressed further and further into my head as I grow. There are a few examples of it being wrong, but it just staggers me to realize how little faith we can have in those that hold the cards. Even the scientists and engineers, driven by fact and logic, can lose it in the face of embarrassment or loss of victory.