* 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.

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.

Gregory Jarvis ' remains were discovered in the lower mid-deck along with fellow astronaut Ronald McNair and school teacher Christa McAuliffe.

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

Trotta ’ s first solo film was Das zweite Erwachen der Christa Klages, or The Second Awakening of Christa Klages ( 1977 ), which focused on “ a young woman ’ s political radicalization .” This film presented multiple subjects that Trotta ’ s films would be known for in the future: “ female bonding, sisterhood, and the uses and effects of violence .” The film ’ s script used real-life information about the seizure of school teacher Margit Czenki from Munich.

* Christa McAuliffe School, elementary and middle school in Saratoga, California

Not long thereafter, he took a job as an assistant comptroller in a Boston department store, and the family moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, where Christa attended and graduated from Marian High School in 1966.

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

There are four middle / junior high schools: Inglewood Junior High, Beaver Lake Middle School, Pine Lake Middle School, and Renaissance School of Art and Reasoning, as well as nearly a dozen elementary schools such as Discovery, Sunny Hills, Cascade Ridge, Challenger, Creekside, Margaret Mead, Samantha Smith, Rachel Carson, Christa McAuliffe, and Elizabeth Blackwell.

Three district buildings are within the village's limits: The District Office Building on Talcott Street, the Owego Elementary School on Christa McAuliffe Lane, and the combined Owego-Apalachin Middle School and Owego Free Academy building on Sheldon Guile Boulevard.

149 Christa McAuliffe School, P. S.

* Christa McAuliffe Elementary School, Palm Bay

McAuliffe Elementary School in Lenexa, Kansas was one of the first schools in the nation to open named in honor of Christa McAuliffe. The district converted from 7-8-9 Junior High model to the 7-8 Middle School model in 1986.

** Christa McAuliffe Elementary School ( Partial )

** Christa McAuliffe Elementary School ( Partial )

Having studied ballet since the age of nine at Christa Cameron School of Ballet in Melbourne, and being home schooled by her mother, she was accepted into the Australian Ballet School at fifteen.

* Christa McAuliffe School

* Christa McAuliffe School

* Christa McAuliffe Middle School ( Houston ) ( Occupied fall 1986 )

Christa Brittany Allen was born in Wildomar, California.

Having conferred with McAuliffe at length the previous evening, Middleton left Bastogne after full daylight on 19 December, and set up headquarters in a school building in Neufchateau, 17 miles to the southwest.

McAuliffe attended school at St. Joseph's College, Gregory Terrace in Brisbane.

McAuliffe was a teacher at Concord High School ( New Hampshire ) | Concord High School in New Hampshire

McAuliffe obtained her first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland.

McAuliffe took a teaching post at Concord High School in 1982.

At Bishop Eustace Preparatory School in New Jersey, the science building is named after McAuliffe in honor of her heroic actions.

** McAuliffe Elementary School ( Oxnard )

The boys ' varsity soccer team has won five New York State Public High School Athletic Association State Championships ( 2004, 2005, 2007, 2009 and 2010 ) all under coach Rob McAuliffe, a Chazy Central Rural School graduate.

Her husband Steven J. McAuliffe remarried and in 1992 became a federal judge, serving with the United States District Court for the District of New Hampshire in Concord.

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