I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.
Christa McAuliffe Quotes
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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| Birth: | 2nd September, 1948 |
| Death: | 28th January, 1986 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Teacher |
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Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. She was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger explosion. She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970, and also a master's in education supervision and administration from Bowie State University in 1978. She obtained her first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland. On July 23, 2004, she and all the other 13 astronauts lost in both the Challenger and Columbia disasters were posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor by President George W. Bush.
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