USA Today : The Best Books of 2021 So Far Literary Hub: 20 Hot New Books Coming Out This Week Praise for The Burning Blue "Gripping.compact and suspenseful.Cook offers a detailed, heartrending, and frequently terrifying accounting of what it must have felt like to be part of the Challenger crew that day." -- The Washington Post "Cook's crisply crafted journalism and perceptive take on the personalities that shaped the Challenger mission--along with NASA's struggles and failures--make for a riveting narrative and complex cross-weave of themes. Celebrity, bureaucracy, political will, industrial design, and unthinkable doom: the ingredients that propel this book like the liquid hydrogen and oxygen that fueled Challenger 's rocketry are superbly balanced in Cook's telling." -- USA Today "A fast-paced chronicle of the horrific event and its aftermath.a vivid, thoroughly researched space history." -- Kirkus Reviews "Using a plethora of primary and secondary sources, including personal interviews and shuttle operation manuals, Cook.
personalizes a pivotal moment in the history of NASA, space exploration, and the U.S. Readers will find something new even if they are familiar with the Challenger disaster." -- Library Journal "Cook ramps up tension with well-selected vignettes.an informative overview of a preventable tragedy that looms large." -- Publishers Weekly history." -- Kirkus Reviews "Using a plethora of primary and secondary sources, including personal interviews and shuttle operation manuals, Cook.personalizes a pivotal moment in the history of NASA, space exploration, and the U.
S. Readers will find something new even if they are familiar with the Challenger disaster." -- Library Journal "Cook ramps up tension with well-selected vignettes.an informative overview of a preventable tragedy that looms large." -- Publishers Weekly history." -- Kirkus Reviews "Using a plethora of primary and secondary sources, including personal interviews and shuttle operation manuals, Cook.personalizes a pivotal moment in the history of NASA, space exploration, and the U.S.
Readers will find something new even if they are familiar with the Challenger disaster." -- Library Journal "Cook ramps up tension with well-selected vignettes.an informative overview of a preventable tragedy that looms large." -- Publishers Weekly history." -- Kirkus Reviews "Using a plethora of primary and secondary sources, including personal interviews and shuttle operation manuals, Cook.personalizes a pivotal moment in the history of NASA, space exploration, and the U.S. Readers will find something new even if they are familiar with the Challenger disaster.
" -- Library Journal "Cook ramps up tension with well-selected vignettes.an informative overview of a preventable tragedy that looms large." -- Publishers Weekly overview of a preventable tragedy that looms large." -- Publishers Weekly.