The Teacher in Space Project (TISP) was a NASA program announced by Ronald Reagan in 1984 designed to inspire students, honor teachers, and spur interest...
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Christa McAuliffe (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
than 11,000 applicants to the NASA Teacher in Space Project and was scheduled to become the first teacher to fly in space. As a member of mission STS-51-L...
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Barbara Morgan (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster)
November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space Project as backup to Christa McAuliffe for...
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successor to the Teacher in Space Project of the 1980s, which NASA cancelled after the death of teacher-astronaut Christa McAuliffe in the Space Shuttle Challenger...
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were in orbit, in addition to taking schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe into space under the Teacher in Space Project. The latter task resulted in a higher-than-usual...
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STS-51-L (category Space accidents and incidents in the United States)
NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. It was planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in addition...
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to carry out live lessons from the orbiter (as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project). Other members would deploy the TDRS-B satellite and conduct comet...
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Spaceflight participant (redirect from Space flight participant)
Cronkite and James Michener could "communicate" space to the public. The first would be the Teacher in Space Project, which would combine publicity and educational...
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Journalist in Space Project was a NASA program designed to inform the public about spaceflight. Journalists would have flown in space on NASA's Space Shuttle...
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Americans who could describe space to others. In August 1984 President Ronald Reagan announced the Teacher in Space Project, the first such program. NASA...
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formerly the Teacher in Space Project, is a project of the United States Rocket Academy. Citizens in Space combines citizen science with citizen space exploration...
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refit, included astronaut Barbara Morgan, formerly assigned to the Teacher in Space project, and later a member of the Astronaut Corps from 1998 to 2008, as...
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to raise children in space. Four women have died during two spaceflight missions 1986 and 2003. The first Teacher in Space Project (TISP) participant...
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1985 (redirect from Died in 1985)
go into space under the Teacher in Space Project, and designated to ride aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger. The Val di Stava dam collapses in Italy,...
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NASA's Space Launch System); the windows were given to project engineers for analysis of how materials and systems fared after repeated space exposure;...
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List of women astronauts (redirect from List of women in space)
have traveled into space, sorted by date of first flight. This list includes Russian cosmonauts, who were the first women in outer space. Valentina Tereshkova...
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Challenger: The Final Flight (redirect from Space for Everyone)
16, 2020. The Space Shuttle Challenger breaks apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, including a school teacher from New Hampshire...
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Dick Scobee (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
Challenger in STS-41-C as a pilot. The mission, designed to deploy a satellite to study the approaching Halley's Comet and to inaugurate the Teacher in Space Project...
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Walter Cronkite (redirect from The Most Trusted Man in America)
Journalist in Space program, which mirrored the Teacher in Space Project, an opportunity that was suspended after the Challenger disaster in 1986. He recorded...
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Space Homer" was written by showrunner David Mirkin and directed by Carlos Baeza. He based the episode on NASA's cancellation of the Teacher in Space...
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Judith Resnik (category Recipients of the Congressional Space Medal of Honor)
flight would also carry Christa McAuliffe, a teacher-observer selected as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project. Resnik was part of the team of astronauts...
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woman in space, after Sally Ride. McAuliffe was participating via the Teacher in Space Project. M. L. "Sonny" Carter died on April 5, 1991, in the crash...
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Astronaut ranks and positions (category Outer space lists)
astronauts who have flown in space. Chief of the Astronaut Office is a position, not a rank. Cosmonauts are professional space travellers from Russia. After...
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Jake Garn (category Space Shuttle program astronauts)
Shuttle in 1981, and the agency had long planned to fly "citizen passengers" such as artists, journalists, entertainers, and the Teacher in Space Project, but...
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Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American writer Andy Weir. Set in the near future, it centers on school-teacher-turned-astronaut Ryland...
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Project 2025 (also known as the 2025 Presidential Transition Project) is a political initiative to reshape the federal government of the United States...
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as the 1986 Florida Teacher of the Year. In 1985, Reynolds was one of the leading candidates for NASA's Teacher in Space Project, a program started by...
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Award in 1987 for overseeing coverage of the death of Teacher in Space Project astronaut Christa McAuliffe, a longtime Concord resident, in the Space Shuttle...
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Emmanuelle in Space is an American erotic science-fiction television series produced for cable and syndication in 1994. It is loosely based upon the character...
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Framingham State University (redirect from State Teachers College at Framingham)
astronaut, participant in Teacher in Space Project, died in Space Shuttle Challenger disaster. Center and memorial on campus in McAuliffe's honor. Brian...
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