The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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Christa McAuliffe
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About Christa McAuliffe
Sharon Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Christa McAuliffeNASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.
I touch the future. I teach.
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.