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   Teacher in Space Project

   More than 11,000 teachers applied for the program; in 1985, NASA selected Christa McAuliffe to be the first teacher in space with Barbara Morgan as her backup.
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   Christa McAuliffe

   NASA selected McAuliffe for this position on July 19, 1985 (another teacher, Barbara Morgan, served as her backup). ... Christa McAuliffe at Find A Grave
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   Space Shuttle Challenger disaster

   Many viewed the launch live due to the presence on the crew of Christa McAuliffe, the first member of the Teacher in Space Project. ... NASA.
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   List of astronauts by selection

   Christa McAuliffe, Barbara Morgan Note: McAuliffe and Morgan were selected as the prime and backup Payload Specialists for the STS-51-L mission in 1985.
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   Barbara Morgan

   Morgan (right) and Christa McAuliffe in 1985. Morgan was selected as the backup candidate for the NASA Teacher in Space Project on July 19, 1985.
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   STS-118

   Morgan trained as the backup to Christa McAuliffe, NASA's Teacher in Space candidate from 1985 to 1986. ... He stated she was accepted as a Mission Specialist, before the new class of Mission Specialist Educators were selected in 2004, and NASA considers her to be a mission specialist, who was once a teacher.
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   STS-51-L

   Sharon Christa McAuliffe (1), Spaceflight Participant (Teacher in Space) ... In the event McAuliffe was disqualified from flight, she would have been replaced by her NASA-selected backup, Barbara Morgan.
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   Astronaut

   Barbara Morgan, selected as back-up teacher to Christa McAuliffe in 1985, is considered to be the first Educator astronaut by the media, but she trained as a mission specialist. ... Johnson Space Center,NASA.
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   Space tourism

   In 1991, British chemist Helen Sharman was selected from a pool of public applicants to be the first Briton in space. ... NASA also lists Christa McAuliffe as a "Space Flight Participant" (although she did not pay a fee), apparently due to her non-technical duties aboard the STS-51-L flight.
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    Richard Feynman

    When describing these wildly differing estimates, Feynman briefly lapses from his damaging but dispassionate detailing of NASA's flaws to recognize the moral failing that resulted from a scientific failing: he was clearly upset that NASA presented its clearly fantastical figures as fact to convince a member of the public, schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe, to join the crew. ... Selected scientific works

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Teacher in Space Project,
• Christa McAuliffe,
• Space Shuttle Challenger disaster,
• List of astronauts by selection,
• Barbara Morgan,
• STS-118,
• STS-51-L,
• Astronaut,
• Space tourism,
• Richard Feynman