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  2. McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center - Wikipedia

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    The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center is a science museum located in Concord, New Hampshire, United States, next door to the NHTI campus. The museum is dedicated to Christa McAuliffe, the Concord High School social studies teacher selected by NASA out of over 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher in space, and Alan Shepard, the Derry, New Hampshire, native and Navy test pilot who became ...

  3. Christa McAuliffe Space Center - Wikipedia

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    The new space center included the second largest planetarium in the state of Utah, which started running shows in November 2020. In 2018, the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center (as it was then called) removed the word "Education" from its name and also updated its logo to a new stylized version of the original. [citation needed]

  4. Framingham State planetarium reopens in time for events ... - AOL

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    Dr. Irene Porro, direc­tor of the Christa McAuliffe Center for Inte­grated Science Learning, welcomes guests to the center's grand reopening at Framingham State University, Jan. 26, 2024.

  5. Christa McAuliffe - Wikipedia

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    Sharon Christa McAuliffe (née Corrigan; September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.

  6. Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a ...

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    The 8-foot-tall (2.4-meter) bronze, depicting McAuliffe walking in stride in a NASA flight suit, is believed to be the first full statue of McAuliffe, known for her openness to experimental learning.

  7. Christa McAuliffe, still pioneering, is first woman with a ...

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    In 2017-2018, two educators-turned-astronauts at the International Space Station recorded some of the lessons that McAuliffe had planned to teach, on Newton’s laws of motion, liquids in microgravity, effervescence and chromatography. NASA then posted “Christa McAuliffe’s Lost Lessons” online, a resource for students everywhere.

  8. New documentary focuses on Christa McAuliffe’s impact as a ...

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    CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Before Christa McAuliffe was an astronaut, she was a vibrant teacher in New England keen on showing her students how everyday people left extraordinary marks on U.S. history. Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

  9. 35 years after Challenger tragedy, nation remembers Christa ...

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    Space shuttle Challenger exploded just over a minute after liftoff in 1986, killing all seven crewmembers, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.