Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster.
On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation's eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost.
Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA's John F.
Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the .