* 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.

* 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.

Nico ( born Christa Päffgen ; 16 October 1938 – 18 July 1988 ) was a German singer, lyricist, composer, musician, fashion model, and actress, who initially rose to fame as a Warhol Superstar in the 1960s.

Nico was born Christa Päffgen in Cologne, five years after the Nazis came to power in Germany.

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.

The spaceship on the 1996 – 1997 children's science-fiction series Space Cases, about a group of students lost in space, was called " Christa ".

Known to her family as Christa, she was born at Židlochovice Castle ( Groß Seelowitz ), near Brno, in Moravia, a daughter of Archduke Karl Ferdinand of Austria and his wife, Archduchess Elisabeth Franziska of Austria.

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.

Christa Hastie came in sixth place and was the fourth jury member

Christa Wolf ( née Ihlenfeld ; 18 March 1929, Landsberg an der Warthe – 1 December 2011, Berlin ) was a German literary critic, novelist, and essayist.

Christa T was a work that — while briefly touching on a disconnection from one's family's ancestral home — was concerned with a woman's experiencing overwhelming societal pressure to conform.

When describing these wildly differing estimates, Feynman briefly lapses from his damaging but dispassionate detailing of NASA's flaws to recognize the moral failing that resulted from a scientific failing: he was clearly upset that NASA presented its clearly fantastical figures as fact to convince a member of the public, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, to join the crew.

The program was cancelled in 1990 following the death of its first participant, Christa McAuliffe, in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster ( STS-51-L ) four years earlier.

Dylan later left for Europe, completing a few performances in England before traveling to Paris where he was introduced to a German model, Christa Paffgen, who went by the name of Nico.

He credits his early teachers in Florida as especially influential: Nolan Dingman, an early company member under George Balanchine, Christa Long, who told him that he was a choreographer, and a Mme.

At the end of the first series, Wayne marries Christa, ( played by Lysette Anthony ), a secretary at the building site.

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.

Eagan became the first of four Olympians to medal in both Winter and Summer Games, followed by Jacob Tullin Thams ( Norway ), Christa Luding-Rothenburger ( East Germany ), and Clara Hughes ( Canada ).

The work was first performed at the Vienna State Opera on 23 May 1971, with Horst Stein conducting and Christa Ludwig in the principal role.

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.

For the first three episodes he was part of an alliance with Sandra Diaz-Twine, Christa Hastie, and Trish Dunn.

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.

Saint James occasionally has emerged from retirement to appear in television series guest roles, such as the mother of ( her real-life lookalike niece ) Christa Miller in the first season of The Drew Carey Show, and ten years later, as a defense attorney on the February 28,

David designed the first issue and the first three covers, after which his assistant Christa Smith art directed and designed the magazine until its demise.

Christa Winsloe may be recorded as having written the first detailed play on female homosexuality in the Weimar Republic, but without the approval demanded by modern defenders of homosexuality.

* Christa McAuliffe ( Class of 1970 ), who was on her way to becoming the first teacher in space before being killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Wyneken's ideas and influence allowed pedagogic eros to be treated in cultural productions such as the first ever feature-film on same-sex love, Mädchen in Uniform ( Germany, 1931 ), based on the novel The Child Manuela by Christa Winsloe.

He first appears in his Killcruiser when he intercepts and threatens to destroy the Christa after discovering that his daughter Elmira, a Spung princess and love interest of Radu, could be on board.

At the end of the first season, the Christa comes across a debris field filled with the remains of an exact duplicate ( save for its color ) of itself.

Station alumni include Christa Quinn and the immortal " Deputy " Don Melvoin who first hosted the Deputy Don kids show in the 1950s.

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.

The Teacher Education Program was recognized in 2010 by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities as the recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Award for Excellence in Teacher Education.