![]() NASA hoped that sending a teacher into space would increase public interest in the Space Shuttle program, and also demonstrate the reliability of space flight at a time when the agency was under continuous pressure to find financial support. I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies. According to The New York Times, she "emphasized the impact of ordinary people on history, saying they were as important to the historical record as kings, politicians or generals." Teacher in Space Project Taking field trips and bringing in speakers were an important part of her teaching techniques. She was a social studies teacher, and taught several courses including American history, law, and economics, in addition to a self-designed course: "The American Woman". ![]() McAuliffe taught 7th and 8th grade American history and English in Concord, New Hampshire, and 9th grade English in Bow, New Hampshire, before taking a teaching post at Concord High School in 1983. In 1978, she moved to Concord, New Hampshire, when Steven accepted a job as an assistant to the New Hampshire Attorney General. In addition to teaching, she completed a Master of Arts in education supervision and administration from Bowie State University in Maryland. From 1971 to 1978, she taught history and civics at Thomas Johnson Middle School in Lanham, Maryland. She obtained her first teaching position in 1970, as an American history teacher at Benjamin Foulois Junior High School in Morningside, Maryland. McAuliffe was a teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire. They had two children, Scott and Caroline, who were nine and six, respectively, when she died. McAuliffe, a 1970 graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, and they moved closer to Washington, D.C., so that he could attend the Georgetown University Law Center. In 1970, she married her longtime boyfriend whom she had known since high school, Steven J. The day after John Glenn orbited the Earth in Friendship 7, she told a friend at Marian High, "Do you realize that someday people will be going to the Moon? Maybe even taking a bus, and I want to do that!" She wrote years later on her NASA application form: "I watched the Space Age being born, and I would like to participate." As a youth, she was inspired by Project Mercury and the Apollo Moon landing program. ![]() She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in 1970 from Framingham State College, now Framingham State University. Not long after, he took a job as an assistant comptroller in a Boston department store, and they moved to Framingham, Massachusetts, where she attended and graduated from Marian High School in 1966. The year she was born, her father was completing his sophomore year at Boston College. She was known by her middle name from an early age, although in later years she signed her name "S. McAuliffe was a great niece of Lebanese-American historian Philip Khuri Hitti. Sharon Christa Corrigan was born on September 2, 1948, in Boston as the oldest of the five children of accountant Edward Christopher Corrigan (1922–1990), who was of Irish descent and Grace Mary Corrigan (1924–2018 née George), a substitute teacher, whose father was of Lebanese Maronite descent. After her death, several schools were named in her honor, and she was posthumously awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 2004. On January 28, 1986, the shuttle broke apart 1 minute 13 seconds after launch, killing all onboard. ![]() As a member of mission STS-51-L, she was planning to conduct experiments and teach two lessons from Challenger. In 1985, McAuliffe was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to the NASA Teacher in Space Project and was scheduled to become the first teacher to fly in space. She took a teaching position as a social studies teacher at Concord High School in New Hampshire in 1983. She received her bachelor's degree in education and history from Framingham State College in 1970 and her master's degree in education, supervision and administration from Bowie State University in 1978. Sharon Christa McAuliffe ( née Corrigan Septem– January 28, 1986) was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, who was killed on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L where she was serving as a payload specialist.
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