title: The Challenger Explosion: Core Events of a Space Tragedy (What Went Wrong?)
author: Jr., John Micklos
description: John Micklos, Jr. has written about 20 books, ranging from poetry books for young readers to biographies for high school students. John loves the research involved in crafting nonfiction books, and he enjoys doing writing workshops with student authors. He lives in Newark, Delaware.
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  Chapter 0
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The National Particle Accelerator Lab was located in Dallas, Texas in the USNA
  (not the northern part of the United States, but the United States that
  encompassed all of Northern America). At a full length of 30 km, the linear
  particle accelerator was preparing to experiment with micro black hole
  creation and evaporation based on the Hawking radiation theory.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  In reality, preparations had already been completed two years ago, but the
  reason why this project was restarted despite its failure to receive approval
  due to its comparatively large unknown risks was because of what happened in
  the Far East sector near end of last month.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  A titanic explosion eradicated the military harbor located on the southern tip
  of the Korean peninsula and the fleet stationed there within an instant. This
  was not just a simple event, but worthy of rating a major crisis.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This was not because of the scale of destruction, but because of the estimated
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