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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.
McAuliffe was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts.He attended Marian High School in Framingham, where he met his future wife Christa Corrigan.He graduated from the Virginia Military Institute with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1970.
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 .
Chevy Chase and Christie Brinkley are taking fans on a “Holiday Road” trip down memory lane. Chase and Brinkley, who appeared together in the classic 1983 comedy “National Lampoon’s ...
Angela Bassett and husband Courtney B. Vance met as classmates at the Yale School of Drama in the 1980s, but the duo didn’t spark a romantic connection until years later.
This is a list of persons who served aboard Space Shuttle crews, arranged in chronological order by Space Shuttle missions.. Abbreviations: PC = Payload Commander; MSE = USAF Manned Spaceflight Engineer