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  2. 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.

  3. Teacher in Space Project - Wikipedia

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    McAuliffe was a high school social studies teacher from Concord, New Hampshire. [2] She planned to teach two 15-minute lessons from the Space Shuttle. [3] McAuliffe died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986.

  4. Space Shuttle Challenger disaster - Wikipedia

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    The Teacher in Space program, which McAuliffe had been selected for, was canceled in 1990 as a result of the Challenger disaster. In 1998, NASA replaced Teacher in Space with the Educator Astronaut Project, which differed in that it required the teachers to become professional astronauts trained as mission specialists, rather than short-term ...

  5. STS-51-L - Wikipedia

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    STS-51-L was the disastrous 25th mission of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in addition to observing Halley's Comet for six days and performing a routine satellite deployment.

  6. Photographer who captured horrifying images of Challenger ...

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    Bruce Weaver, a Florida-based photographer who captured a definitive image of space shuttle Challenger breaking apart into plumes of smoke and fire after liftoff, has died. Working as a freelance ...

  7. CPS teacher collapses at school, dies short time later

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    CHICAGO - An 8th grade Chicago Public School teacher passed out, possibly suffering a heart attack in class and died a short time later. It happened Tuesday at Spencer Technology Academy in the ...

  8. 'She made them feel special.' Longtime Framingham teacher ...

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    Alanna Maida, a teacher at Potter Road Elementary School in Framingham since 1992, died unexpectedly at the age of 54. 'She made them feel special.' Longtime Framingham teacher dies unexpectedly at 54

  9. Barbara Morgan - Wikipedia

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    Barbara Radding Morgan (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut.She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for the 1986 ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger.