Born Sharon Christa Corrigan in Boston, Massachusetts, the eldest of the five children of Edward Christopher Corrigan ( 1922 – 1990 )— an accountant — and Grace Mary Corrigan ( née George ), a substitute teacher, she was of Lebanese descent.

McAuliffe was known by the name " Christa " from an early age, although in later years she signed her name " S. Christa Corrigan ", and eventually " S. Christa McAuliffe ".

The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium / McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, the Christa Corrigan Hennessy Center for Education and Teaching Excellence at Framingham State College, and the Christa McAuliffe Residential Community building at Bowie State University are named in her memory, as are the asteroid 3352 McAuliffe, the crater McAuliffe on the Moon, and a crater on the planet Venus, which was named McAuliffe by the Soviet Union.

* The Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Collection at the Henry Whittemore Library in Framingham State College

* Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Center for Education and Teaching Excellence

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* Christa McAuliffe nee Corrigan, astronaut

* Christa McAuliffe School-A progressive K-8 school in the Cupertino Union School District in California

* 1948 – Christa McAuliffe, American educator and astronaut ( d. 1986 )

Morgan was the backup for Christa McAuliffe on the ill-fated STS-51-L mission.

* January 28 – STS-51-L: Space Shuttle Challenger disintegrates 73 seconds after launch, killing the crew of 7 astronauts, including schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe ( see Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ).

** Christa McAuliffe, American astronaut and teacher ( b. 1948 )

Bush announces that New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe will become the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

Christa McAuliffe was chosen as the first Teacher in Space in July 1985 from 11, 400 applicants.

* The Voyager, the first simulator constructed at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center

Christa McAuliffe ( September 2, 1948 – January 28, 1986 ) was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Approximately 40 schools around the world have been named after her, including the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center in Pleasant Grove, Utah.

* Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center.

It is mainly used by freelance programmers to make small widgets or libraries, but as one example is used exclusively by the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center.

* " Zero Hour ", a story told in the Galileo Simulator at the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center

He died at Northridge Hospital Medical Center, Los Angeles, with his daughter Christa, Amber Lynn and his close friend Harold Jenkins at his side.

* Christa McAuliffe Learning Center

However, the town has reputable private hospitals and medical centers and these include Hema Hospital, Getembe Hospital, Christa Marianne Hospital, Nyangena hospital, Bosongo Medical Center, Ram Hospital and the Agha kan hospital being one of the new ones opened recently serving the municipality and the County in general.

* Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center, Pleasant Grove, Utah

Reformers like authors Stefan Heym and Christa Wolf and attorney Gregor Gysi, lawyer of dissidents like Robert Havemann and Rudolf Bahro, soon began to re-invent a party infamous for its rigid Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy and police-state methods.

In 2006, a documentary film about McAuliffe and Morgan called Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars aired on CNN in the CNN Presents format.

Christa McAuliffe Middle School ( 1, 022 ) for grades 6-8, along with

The Working Girl soundtrack album came out in early 1989, and featured more music from Simon, and as a tribute to Christa McAuliffe, who was slated to be the first teacher in space and who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster for whom Simon also wrote a song " You're Where I Go ".

On September 18, 1990, the CD, " Minnie n Me: Songs Just for Girls " was released featuring child vocalist Christa Larson.

According to Bill Lawrence, " Christa picks so much of the music for the show that a lot of the writers and actors don't even go to me anymore when they have a song.

* 1986-Space Shuttle Challenger accident, killing all seven aboard ( inclduing school teacher Christa McAuliffe ) and grounding the nation's space program for 2½ years.

** Georg Solti ( conductor ), Regine Crespin, Hans Hotter, James King, Christa Ludwig, Birgit Nilsson, & the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkure

Christa Ludwig ( born 16 March 1928 ) is a retired German mezzo-soprano, distinguished for her performances of opera, Lieder, oratorio and other major religious works like masses and passions, and solos contained in symphonic literature.

Jon and Burton began seeing Rupert as a physical threat for challenges and conspired to vote him off, irking Rupert's alliance members Sandra and Christa.

Her subsequent works included Nachdenken über Christa T. ( The Quest for Christa T .) ( 1968 ), Kindheitsmuster ( Patterns of Childhood ) ( 1976 ), Kein Ort.

* The quest for Christa Wolf an interview with Hanns-Bruno Kammertöns and Stephan Lebert about private chats with Honecker, a German society in check mate, the influence of Goethe, the shortcomings of Brecht, and the lasting effects of Utopia at signandsight. com.

** Hans Weber ( producer ), Leonard Bernstein ( conductor ), June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Ollmann & the London Symphony Orchestra for Bernstein: Candide

She appeared in the 2006 documentary Christa McAuliffe: Reach for the Stars.

** Cord Garben ( producer ), James Levine ( conductor ), Siegfried Jerusalem, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Moll, James Morris, Jan Hendrik Rootering, Ekkehard Wlaschiha, Heinz Zednik & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Das Rheingold

** Cord Garben ( producer ), James Levine ( conductor ), Hildegard Behrens, Gary Lakes, Christa Ludwig, Kurt Moll, James Morris, Jessye Norman & the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra for Wagner: Die Walkuere

Barbara Morgan and Christa McAuliffe, backup and primary TISP participants for Mission STS-51-L

More than 11, 000 teachers applied for the program ; in 1985, NASA selected Christa McAuliffe to be the first teacher in space with Barbara Morgan as her backup.

She participated in the Teacher in Space program as the backup to Christa McAuliffe for the ill-fated STS-51-L mission of the Space Shuttle Challenger.