The Challenger Explosion, Heather Adamson
The Challenger Explosion, Heather Adamson
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The Challenger Explosion

Author: Heather Adamson

Narrator: Various Narrators

Unabridged: 11 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Capstone Press

Published: 03/01/2013


Synopsis

Tells the story of Christa McAuliffe and the six other NASA astronauts who lost their lives in the Challenger space shuttle disaster on January 28, 1986.

Reviews

It's a difficult story to make kid friendly, but for a graphic novel, it covers the basics. I have kids that would probably have nightmares from it, so you would have to decide whether your child could handle it or not. The thing I like about this series is that it offers a bunch of actual facts in......more

Naturally, this event was way to complicated to fit in this amount of space but there's no reason to avoid presenting it to the intended audience. It contains the specific opinion of the engineers which is the most telling factor in the disaster.......more

Goodreads review by Kelly

I love the simplified story accompanied by the graphics.......more

Goodreads review by Kris

The book is really great for struggling readers and ones who like the graphic novels. I'm not real big on graphic novels which impacted my rating, but I did find the information interesting. I was a little over a year old when this took place so I certain wouldn't have remembered any of that. As som......more