Richard C. Cook Interview with Roanoke Times’ Mike Allen
Monday, March 28th, 2011NASA analyst Richard C. Cook: the complete interview | Arts & Extras http://blogs.roanoke.com/arts/2011/03/nasa-analyst-richard-c-cook-the-complete-interview/ March 28, 2011 (Blogger’s note: As promised in today’s Extra, where I ran excerpts from my question and answer sessions with NASA budget analyst and author Richard C. Cook (see previous blog entry), here is the complete interview.) Q. How old are [...]


In January 1986 Cook became the first NASA official to testify publicly on the space agency's prior knowledge of flaws in the solid rocket booster O-ring joints that destroyed Challenger and took the lives of its seven astronauts. He told his story in the book Challenger Revealed, published in 2007. Publisher's Weekly wrote of the book: "Easily the most informative and important book on the disaster."
