21 Facts About Christa McAuliffe

1. Christa McAuliffe was a high school teacher from Concord, New Hampshire who died with six other astronauts in the 1986 explosion of the US space shuttle Challenger.

2. Christa McAuliffe took Hickey and fellow students to courtrooms and conducted mock trials in class.

3. On July 19, 1985 Christa Corrigan Christa McAuliffe was selected from a field of 10,000 candidates to be America's first teacher-astronaut.

4. Christa McAuliffe was a frequent guest at the Scobee house; "We talked about our students, teaching, and simulation activities and why experiences outside textbooks were so important.

5. Christa McAuliffe beat out about 11,000 other applicants for the Teacher in Space program.

6. Christa McAuliffe was a frequent guest at the Scobee house; \"We talked about our students, teaching, and simulation activities and why experiences outside textbooks were so important.

7. Christa McAuliffe is buried in a Concord cemetery, on a hillside not far from the planetarium built in her honor.

8. Christa McAuliffe was born September 2, 1948 to Edward and Grace Corrigan, and grew up being very excited about the space program.

9. Christa McAuliffe was born on September 2, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts.

10. At the time of her death, Christa McAuliffe was the wife of Steven McAuliffe and the mother of two children: Scott and Caroline.

11. Christa McAuliffe was one of 114 selected from the initial applicants.

12. Christa McAuliffe graduated from Marian High School in Framingham, Massachusetts in 1966 and then enrolled as a student at Framingham State College.

13. Christa McAuliffe would monitor an experiment in hydroponics.

14. Christa McAuliffe learned how to capture clear, sharp, detailed photographs from space with a personal camera.

15. Christa McAuliffe selected her own meals from an assortment of space food.

16. Christa McAuliffe learned to operate galley equipment, and even how to accomplish bathroom operations in outer space.

17. Christa McAuliffe survived the cut and went to Washington, DC to proceed with the selection process before the National Review Panel.

18. Christa McAuliffe was an extraordinary teacher with a dream of being a passenger on the space shuttle, so when NASA announced a contest to take a teacher into space, she jumped at the chance and applied.

19. Around this time, Christa McAuliffe began her career as an educator, teaching American history and English to junior high school students in Maryland.

20. Christa McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 2, 1948.

21. Christa McAuliffe was one of two teachers nominated by the state of New Hampshire.