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... 37 KB (3,496 words) - 18:47, 20 March 2024 |
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... 4 KB (459 words) - 18:32, 14 January 2024 |
Barbara Morgan (category Space Shuttle Challenger disaster) (born November 28, 1951) is an American teacher and a former NASA astronaut. She participated in the Teacher in Space program as backup to Christa McAuliffe... 20 KB (1,862 words) - 18:48, 20 March 2024 |
STS-51-L (category Space accidents and incidents in the United States) of NASA's Space Shuttle program and the final flight of Space Shuttle Challenger. Planned as the first Teacher in Space Project flight in addition to... 19 KB (1,382 words) - 16:52, 25 April 2024 |
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... 19 KB (1,893 words) - 05:51, 3 September 2023 |
to raise children in space. Four women have died during two spaceflight missions 1986 and 2003. The first Teacher in Space Project (TISP) participant... 71 KB (7,862 words) - 13:16, 22 April 2024 |
NASA's Space Launch System); the windows were given to project engineers for analysis of how materials and systems fared after repeated space exposure;... 68 KB (7,322 words) - 16:09, 13 April 2024 |
Project Hail Mary is a 2021 science fiction novel by American novelist Andy Weir. Set in the near future, it centers on school-teacher-turned-astronaut... 26 KB (3,022 words) - 09:26, 22 April 2024 |
Challenger: The Final Flight (redirect from Space for Everyone) members aboard, including school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The tragedy shook the United States and grounded the Space Shuttle program for nearly three... 9 KB (346 words) - 23:03, 26 March 2024 |
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... 8 KB (724 words) - 16:53, 23 August 2023 |
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... 25 KB (1,476 words) - 09:05, 6 April 2024 |
1985 (redirect from Died in 1985) July 19 New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe is selected as the first person to go into space under the Teacher in Space Project, and designated to ride... 39 KB (3,927 words) - 02:24, 16 April 2024 |
tests in space that furthered space technologies that are still being used today. In the same year, Barbara Morgan became the first teacher in space; however... 20 KB (2,382 words) - 05:59, 26 April 2024 |
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... 20 KB (1,500 words) - 02:13, 11 February 2024 |
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... 25 KB (2,491 words) - 12:04, 4 April 2024 |
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... 5 KB (411 words) - 10:49, 21 January 2024 |
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... 12 KB (1,144 words) - 03:46, 18 April 2024 |
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... 18 KB (1,709 words) - 01:40, 25 April 2024 |
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... 42 KB (1,103 words) - 08:44, 6 April 2024 |
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... 107 KB (12,339 words) - 15:05, 9 April 2024 |
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... 45 KB (5,052 words) - 19:28, 4 April 2024 |
STS-3xx (redirect from Space Shuttle Rescue Mission) was initiated following loss of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003. No mission of this type was launched during the Space Shuttle program. The orbiter and... 33 KB (3,241 words) - 22:21, 2 April 2024 |