Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer, decades after she was picked to become America’s first teacher in space. Now she's the first woman to be memorialized with a statue on the grounds of New Hampshire’s Statehouse, in the city where she taught high school.
FILE - In this Sept. 13, 1985 file photo, Christa McAuliffe tries out the commander’s seat on the flight deck of a shuttle simulator at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas. FILE - In this 1985 file photo, high school teacher Christa McAuliffe rides with her children Caroline, left, and Scott during a parade down Main Street in Concord , N.H. FILE - Space teacher Christa McAuliffe responds to a question at a press conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas, Dec. 13, 1985.
“To see a hero like Christa McAuliffe memorialized in this way will undoubtedly inspire the next generation of students each time they visit the New Hampshire Statehouse,” Gov. Chris Sununu said in a statement. HisMan charged with threatening to kill presidential candidates found dead as jury was deciding verdict
In 2017-2018, two educators-turned-astronauts at the International Space Station recorded some of the lessons that McAuliffe had planned to teach, on Newton’s laws of motion, liquids in microgravity, effervescence and chromatography. NASA then posted
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