Foreword
Preface
Prologue
Part I. Red Flags
Chapter 1. When It Rains It Pours
Chapter 2. Tests and “No Tests”
Chapter 3. Dire Warning
Chapter 4. A Total O-Ring Failure
Chapter 5. An Impotent Task Force
Chapter 6. “In the Interest of Avoiding Pain”
Part II. Misdiagnosis
Chapter 7. The Teleconference
Chapter 8. The Caucus
Chapter 9. “Obviously, a Major Malfunction”
Chapter 10. “Don’t Blame Yourself”
Chapter 11. “When Is the Space Shuttle Going Up, Daddy?”
Part III. Search for the Truth
Chapter 12. Shocking the Presidential Commission
Chapter 13. Cover-up
Chapter 14. “God, That Took a Lot of Guts”
Chapter 15. A Leper in the Limelight
Chapter 16. Walking Out
Chapter 17. “The Extremes of Allowable Engineering”
Chapter 18. Changing Hats and Minds
Part IV. Obfuscation
Chapter 19. Rationalization and Innuendo
Chapter 20. 31 Degrees?
Chapter 21. Houston, You Have a Problem
Chapter 22. Finger Pointing
Chapter 23. The Apocalypse Letter
Chapter 24. “Trouble with Your Logic”
Chapter 25. The Monkey Changes Backs
Part V. Commissioners and Congressmen
Chapter 26. The Green Ball Theory
Chapter 27. Commencement
Chapter 28. Commodore Locke Assailed in Washington
Chapter 29. The Buck Stops Here?
Part VI. No Consensus
Chapter 30. The Bell Tolls for Thee
Chapter 31. Redesign and Resurrection
Chapter 32. Boisjoly’s $2 Billion Lawsuit
Chapter 33. No Mountain Too High
Chapter 34. The Peacekeeper Explosion
Chapter 35. Witness for the Defense … and Prosecution
Chapter 36. Confirming the Silver Bullet
Part VII. Return-to-Flight
Chapter 37. Flight of the Phoenix
Chapter 38. Premonitions
Chapter 39. Dissolution
Chapter 40. Requiem
Acknowledgments
Big Sky Values: A Biography of Allan J. McDonald
List of Abbreviations
Bibliographical Essay
Further Reading
Index
