Another masterpiece by Adam Higginbotham.No fictitious thriller story can come close to real life stories like these especially when narrated by an amazing story teller. Thoroughly researched this book tells not only about the tragic Challenger incident but gives us snippets of the lives of all the people involved in it.The technological and scientific details are very well explained without being overbearing. Regarding the actual tragedy, even though I knew what was coming, the way the author changes the pace of the book, really hooks you in. It made me slow down my reading to really savour it. I felt all the emotions, associated with the roller coaster ride, especially anguish in the part leading up to the launch, as if happening in real time. It was an awful tragedy and I hope their family members found some peace eventually.
Apart from the actual incident, something I took away from the book , was the realisation that every single day is actually very fragile and the fact that you survive it is a miracle, because pretty much everything that we interact with in reality comes to us through a series of human decisions which are fraught with so many errors. And the fact that nothing goes wrong is just luck which can abandon you suddenly without any warning, and there is no pattern to this.
PS: I know a lot of people on this sub love 'Into Thin Air'. I would highly recommend this book to all those folks.
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