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NASA: decline and fall

Nature volume 327, pages 289–290 (1987)Cite this article

Challenger: A Major Malfunction.

By Malcolm McConnell. Doubleday, New York/ Simon & Schuster, London: 1987. Pp.269. $17.95, £12.95. Prescription for Disaster: From the Glory of Apollo to the Betrayal of the Shuttle. By Joseph Trento and Susan Trento. Crown, New York:1987. Pp.320. $18.95

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