Comm Check…: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

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On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space go back and forth Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and The united states’s space program, all the time an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia’s destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate aftermath focused on the conceivable cause of the disaster, and on the nation’s grief. But the full human story, and the shocking details of NASA’s an important mistakes, have never been told — until now.
In keeping with dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-published documents and recordings of key meetings obtained by the authors, Comm Check takes the reader inside the conference rooms and offices where NASA’s best and brightest managed the nation’s multi-billion-dollar go back and forth program — and where they failed to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. It’s the story of a space program pushed to the brink of failure by relentless political pressure, shrinking budgets and improper decision making. The independent investigation into the disaster uncovered why Columbia broke apart in the sky above Texas. Comm Check brings that story to life with the human drama in the back of the tragedy.
Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, two of The united states’s most respected space journalists, are veterans of all but a handful of NASA’s 113 go back and forth missions. Tapping a network of sources and bringing a combined three decades of experience to bear, the authors provide a rare glimpse into NASA’s inner circles, chronicling the agency’s most devastating failure and the challenges that face NASA as it struggles to go back The united states to space.
On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space go back and forth Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and The united states’s space program, all the time an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia’s destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate aftermath focused on the conceivable cause of the disaster, and on the nation’s grief. But the full human story, and the shocking details of NASA’s an important mistakes, have never been told — until now.
In keeping with dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-published documents and recordings of key meetings obtained by the authors, Comm Check takes the reader inside the conference rooms and offices where NASA’s best and brightest managed the nation’s multi-billion-dollar go back and forth program — and where they failed to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. It’s the story of a space program pushed to the brink of failure by relentless political pressure, shrinking budgets and improper decision making. The independent investigation into the disaster uncovered why Columbia broke apart in the sky above Texas. Comm Check brings that story to life with the human drama in the back of the tragedy.
Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, two of The united states’s most respected space journalists, are veterans of all but a handful of NASA’s 113 go back and forth missions. Tapping a network of sources and bringing a combined three decades of experience to bear, the authors provide a rare glimpse into NASA’s inner circles, chronicling the agency’s most devastating failure and the challenges that face NASA as it struggles to go back The united states to space.

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