Kevin Cook on The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster

Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI Radio in New York

(6/17/21) On Jan. 28, 1986, NASA’s space shuttle Challenger exploded after taking off from Cape Canaveral. Christa McAuliffe, America’s “Teacher in Space,” was instantly killed, along with the other six members of the mission. At least that's what most of us remember. In his new book The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster, author Kevin Cook looks at what really happened on that ill-fated day. Join us for a hard look at what led an overconfident space agency to launch a crew that had no chance to escape in this installment of Leonard Lopate at Large on WBAI.