However, despite the mission's classified nature, issues spotted following the launch gave some engineers pause for thought – it could easily have mirrored the Challenger disaster a year later.

By the time of the Challenger disaster ... The commission found that officials at NASA and Morton Thiokol, the contractor that manufactured the rockets, had minimized or ignored concerns about ...

It isn’t really a book, but Richard Feynman’s Appendix to the Challenger Disaster Report is still definitely something you should read. It’s not particularly long, but it’s educational ...

the Challenger disaster was barely mentioned, and he did not address the deep problems raised by the presidential commission. Roger M. Boisjoly, one of the Morton Thiokol engineers who tried ...