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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.
Her husband Gus Grissom, one of the Mercury Seven astronauts, died in the first fatal accident in the history of the United States space program. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Ms. Grissom has been portrayed in the books The Right Stuff (1979) by Tom Wolfe and The Astronaut Wives Club (2013) by Lily Koppel and by the actors Veronica Cartwright and JoAnna Garcia ...
Richard Douglas Husband (July 12, 1957 – February 1, 2003) was an American astronaut and fighter pilot. He traveled into space twice: as pilot of STS-96 and commander of STS-107 . Husband and the rest of the crew of STS-107 were killed when Columbia disintegrated during reentry into the Earth's atmosphere .
Husband was selected as an astronaut by NASA in 1994, and he made his first spaceflight as the pilot of the Space Shuttle Endeavour to the International Space Station on the STS-96 mission in 1999.
The Astronaut Wives Club was an informal support group of women, sometimes called Astrowives, whose husbands were members of the Mercury 7 group of astronauts. The group included Annie Glenn , Betty Grissom , Louise Shepard , Trudy Cooper , Marge Slayton , Rene Carpenter , and Jo Schirra .
Christie Brinkley was feeling the music as Billy Joel performed her song!On Friday, Brinkley attended her ex-husband's sold-out show at Madison Square Garden, and got a special serenade. In a ...
Christine Quinn claimed her husband, Christian Richard, once went to extreme lengths to get her to prove her love ahead of his recent arrests. Quinn, 35, filed for a restraining order earlier this ...
The Astronaut's Wife is a 1999 American science fiction thriller film directed and written by Rand Ravich, in his feature directorial debut. It stars Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron . The film was released on August 27, 1999.