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Article: McAuliffe: the girl next door // Choice was designed to spread agency message to the masses Series: I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- January 25, 1987
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to a question at a press conference in December, 1985. With her is
Jarvis, also a payload specialist. Christa McAuliffe's parents,
Grace and Edward Corrigan, and her sister, Lisa Bristol, watch the
launch. Christa McAuliffe wanted to be the first teacher in space to
show the world that "there are real people up there," she said.
McAuliffe (right) smiles at the White House announcement that she
would be America's first private citizen on the space shuttle. At
left is Peggy Lathlaen, another finalist in whom McAuliffe confided.
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Sharon Christa McAuliffe, wife, mother, schoolteacher and first
private citizen chosen to go into space, died in the ...