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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.
The McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center, a science museum and planetarium in Concord, New Hampshire, is named in honor of McAuliffe, a Concord High School teacher, and Alan Shepard, who was from Derry, New Hampshire. [88] The crew's families established the Challenger Center for Space Science Education as an educational non-profit organization. [89]
Space shuttle Challenger exploded just over a minute after liftoff in 1986, killing all seven crewmembers, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.
Challenger after the explosion 73 seconds after launch. ... The surname of the first teacher in space, S. Christa McAuliffe, is followed by a symbolic apple. [12]
The 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explosion is a tragedy that defined a generation. ... Judith Resnik, Gregory Jarvis and Christa McAuliffe, the first civilian in space. ...
The disaster led to the deaths of its seven crew members, including teacher Christa. Today we remember the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster that occurred on January 28, 1986, when Space Shuttle ...
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.
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.