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School Library Journal Review

Gr 4-8 The Cohens summarize the unforgettable events of January 28, 1986. A chapter on each of the astronauts on board briefly details their lives and how they arrived at that place and time. The remainder of the book reviews manned space flight to date, the reasons for the shuttle, manned versus unmanned flight, and the options for space flight after this tragedy. The authors write simply, sometimes colloquially, but factually and unemotionally, covering the facts as they are known to date. They frequently include direct quotations from people involved in space programs around the world. More profound accounts may follow, but for now here are the facts of the tragedy with its actors placed in the context of the ongoing space program. Sylvia S. Marantz, Wellington School, Columbus (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

Gr. 5-8. This offers thumbnail sketches of the seven astronauts killed when the space shuttle Challenger blew up as well as a brief history of the U.S. space program. The treatment is superficial but still useful as a quick reference tool for students needing information on or curious about these particular astronauts. DMW. 629.45'0092 (B) Astronauts U.S. Biography

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Daniel Cohen was born Daniel Edward Reba in Chicago, Illinois on March 12, 1936. He received a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Illinois. He worked at Time magazine and Science Digest before he began writing books. His books for children and teenagers dealt with ghosts, U.F.O.s, the occult, ESP, vampires, werewolves, conspiracies, cloning, weather, and the human genome. He also wrote biographies of the astronomer Carl Sagan and Jesse Ventura.

His only child, Theodora Cohen, was killed in the December 21, 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103. He and his wife Susan Cohen exhaustively sought justice for their daughter and the 269 other victims of the bombing. They wrote several books together including When Someone You Know Is Gay and Pan Am 103: The Bombing, the Betrayals, and a Bereaved Family's Search for Justice. He died from sepsis on May 6, 2018 at the age of 82.

(Bowker Author Biography)