On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s 25th space shuttle mission, Challenger, left the launchpad in Cape Canaveral, Florida. Seventy-three seconds into flight, Challenger exploded over the Atlantic Ocean as millions of people watched. All seven people on board died. Now, forty years later, journalist Adam Higginbotham chronicles what went wrong. His book <a href="https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Challenger/Adam-Higginbotham/9781982176617"target="_blank" >Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space</a> pieces together stories from key officials, engineers and the families of those killed in the explosion – and details how its legacy still haunts spaceflight today.  Consider<a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/25/1198909547/nasa-international-space-station-loral-ohara-research-human-health"target="_blank" > checking out our episode</a> speaking to <a href="https://www.npr.org/2024/03/25/1198909547/nasa-international-space-station-loral-ohara-research-human-health"target="_blank" >an astronaut while she’s in space</a>. Have a scientific question you want us to answer? Email us at <a href="mailto:shortwave@npr.org"target="_blank" >shortwave@npr.org</a>. Listen to every episode of Short Wave sponsor-free and support our work at NPR by signing up for Short Wave+ at <a href="http://plus.npr.org/shortwave"target="_blank" >plus.npr.org/shortwave</a>. Listen to Short Wave on <a href="https://n.pr/3HOQKeK"target="_blank" >Spotify</a> and <a href="https://n.pr/3WA9vqh"target="_blank" >Apple Podcasts</a>. Learn more about sponsor message choices: <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a> <a href="https://www.npr.org/about-npr/179878450/privacy-policy">NPR Privacy Policy</a>

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