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 year that McAuliffe was born, her father was completing his sophomore year at Boston College.

McAuliffe attended Framingham State College in her hometown, graduating in 1970 with a Bachelor of Arts in education and history.

A few weeks later, she married her longtime boyfriend Steven J. McAuliffe, whom she had met at Marian High, and they moved closer to Washington, D. C., so that Steven could attend the Georgetown University Law Center.

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.

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

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

McAuliffe was a Simon fan and had taken a cassette of her music on board the shuttle.

The head coach of the 2011 team was Stacey Stone, and her assistant coaches were Melinda Johnson and Mickaela McAuliffe.

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.

* 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.

McAuliffe found that the court had appointed Sybil's white stepfather A. T. Woodward, an attorney, as her guardian when she was a minor.

McAuliffe learned that his grandmother's murder had been covered over with a false death certificate, and he came to believe that her white stepfather, A. T. Woodward, was responsible for her death.

Also, as a result of the damage caused to the crystal in her forehead, THELMA cannot offer much of any expertise as to how to operate the ship, but does explain that it is named the Christa, in honor of Christa McAuliffe, a science teacher from Earth who died in the 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

Dick McAuliffe cracked the first of his two doubles against Lefty Don Rudolph to open the Bear's attack.

The first clickable web ad ( which later came to be known by the term " banner ad ") was sold by Global Network Navigator ( GNN ) in 1993 to Heller, Ehrman, White and McAuliffe, a now defunct law firm with a Silicon Valley office.

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

In 1985, McAuliffe was selected from more than 11, 000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project and was scheduled to become the first teacher in space.

In 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, and McAuliffe learned about NASA's efforts to find the first civilian, an educator, to fly into space.

After being chosen to be the first teacher in space, McAuliffe was a guest on several television programs, including Good Morning America ; the CBS Morning News ; the Today Show ; and The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson, where, when asked about the mission, she stated, " If you ’ re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don ’ t ask what seat.

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 ".

This is where Bob Wills, Leon McAuliffe, and Tommy Duncan first started playing music together.

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.

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.

On August 27, he earned his first and only major league victory against the Detroit Tigers, 2 – 1, allowing four hits to a powerful lineup that included Norm Cash, Bill Freehan, Al Kaline, Dick McAuliffe, Eddie Mathews and Jim Northrup.

Lunn is also famous for coining the phrase " there is no such thing as an ex-Queenslander ", which he first used when in November 1979 he convinced rugby league Senator Ron McAuliffe, President of the QRL, on a 90-minute plane trip from Brisbane to Canberra, of the viability of a Rugby League State of Origin series.

This song was first recorded by the Page Cavanaugh Trio and later by Western Swing bandleader Leon McAuliffe.

During the 1970s Michael Stein, E. Clarke Porter and PLATO veteran Jim Ghesquiere, in cooperation with NASD executive Frank McAuliffe, developed the first " on-demand " proctored commercial testing service.

In 1921, Irene McAuliffe, daughter of the late Weston police chief and horse breeder Patrick McAuliffe, was among the first six female member of the Boston Police Department.

The Tigers broke the game open in the sixth inning when first baseman Norm Cash led off with another solo homer, and second baseman Dick McAuliffe later provided a two-run single.

The Tigers struck in their half of the first off Blue Moon Odom when Dick McAuliffe led off with a single.

During his first two seasons, Oyler was a backup shortstop for Dick McAuliffe.

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

In the autumn of that year, McAuliffe and Morgan each took a year-long leave of absence from teaching in order to train for a space shuttle mission in early 1986.

On July 19, 1985, Vice President George H. W. Bush announced that McAuliffe had been selected for the position.

While in this position, McAuliffe supervised the development of such new technology as the bazooka and the jeep.

He explained to McAuliffe that he had seen enough of war and apparently McAuliffe understood his position, but explained that he was needed because of his command experience.

* 1959 – Emmett McAuliffe, American radio show host and lawyer

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

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

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.

Other pioneers of a hoppy American pale ale were Jack McAuliffe of the New Albion Brewing Company and Bert Grant of Yakima Brewing.

On December 22, 1944, through a party consisting of a major, a lieutenant, and two enlisted men under a flag of truce that entered the American lines southeast of Bastogne ( occupied by Company F, 2nd Battalion, 327th Glider Infantry ), General von Lüttwitz sent the following ultimatum to Gen. McAuliffe:

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.

The commanding officer of the American forces, General Anthony McAuliffe, had one word for them: " Nuts!