This article commemorates Christa McAuliffe, NASA's first teacher in space, on the anniversary of the Challenger disaster. It highlights her legacy through photos and stories, showcasing her impact on education and space exploration.
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Christa McAuliffe, NASA's first teacher in space, smiles after she was suited up for her space flight, Jan. 27, 1986, at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With a poster of NASA's first teacher in space Christa McAuliffe displayed on the wall, teacher Kimberly Bleier instructs her students in one of classrooms where McAuliffe taught at Concord High School, Monday, Dec. 16, 2024, in Concord, N.H.
Nearly four decades later, a new documentary focuses on how she still inspires others and less on her fate aboard the space shuttle Challenger.with the state and its capital, Concord, where she was picked from more than 11,000 applicants to be the nation’s first teacher in space. McAuliffe saw herself as one of them. A lover of field trips, she looked forward to bringing back her thoughts and journal from the shuttle mission “like a woman on the Conestoga wagon pioneering the West,” she had said in an interview.
In New Hampshire, many children learn about government beginning in fourth grade. They visit the Statehouse. McAuliffe's statue stands near the entrance, a good starting point for a discussion. It's the first statue added to the grounds in over a century, and the first woman.
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