 But the tragedy of the Space Shuttle Challenger is well within our recent collective memory of witnessing a live, raw, incomprehensible televised event that stunned everyone, as NASA was always synonymous with something positive and its infallibility with its can-do attitude. The Challenger accident shook everyone's belief in them to the core, especially after we later learned the truth. In Adam Higginbotham's Challenger, a true story of heroism and disaster on the edge of space,