Summary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY SCI-FI GRA

Higginbotham, Adam

Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Midnight in Chernobyl comes the definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on fascinating new archival research and in-depth reporting-a riveting history that reads like a thriller"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Avid Reader Press 2024

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 HIG

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.12 HIG

Summary: Dr. Ryan Stone is a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky. On a seemingly routine spacewalk, the shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI GRA

Naujokaitis, Pranas T.

Summary: "In History Comics: The Challenger Disaster, we turn the clock back to January 28, 1986. Seven astronauts boarded the space shuttle Challenger on what would be a routine mission. All eyes and cameras were on crew member Christa McAuliffe, a high school teacher, who was set to become the first private citizen in space. Excitement filled the air as the clock counted down to liftoff. But at T-plus...

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Publisher / Publication Date: First Second 2020

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363.124 NAU

Summary: Watch a heart-pounding thriller that will draw viewers into the infinite and merciless realm of deep space. A brilliant medical engineer, Dr. Ryan Stone, is on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut and acting space commander Matt Kowalski. Then disaster strikes the shuttle, leaving Stone and Kowalski completely out of touch with Earth. With little oxygen and energy left, how will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GRA

Day, Kate Hope

Summary: "June is a brilliant but difficult girl with a gift for mechanical invention who leaves home to begin a grueling astronaut training program. Six years later, she has gained a coveted post as an engineer on a space station, but is haunted by the mystery of Inquiry, a revolutionary spacecraft powered by her beloved late uncle's fuel cells. The spacecraft went missing when June was twelve years...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DAY

McNeese, Tim.

Summary: Recounts events surrounding the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986, the first shuttle to carry a civilian passenger, and discusses the impact of this disaster on the United States space program.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press 2003

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 363 MCN

Leinbach, Michael D.

Summary: On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed rural east...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space Leinbach

Dean, Margaret Lazarus

Summary: In the 1960s, humans took their first steps away from Earth, and for a time our possibilities in space seemed endless. But in a time of austerity and in the wake of high-profile disasters like Challenger, that dream has ended. In early 2011, Margaret Lazarus Dean traveled to Cape Canaveral for NASA's last three space shuttle launches in order to bear witness to the end of an era. With Dean as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Graywolf Press 2015

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 629 DEA

Panteleakos, Nicole

Summary: Autistic and nearly nonverbal, twelve-year-old Nova is happy in her new foster home and school, but eagerly anticipates the 1986 Challenger launch, for which her sister, Bridget, promised to return.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Wendy Lamb Books 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC PAN