The shuttle was Xavier IV on April 28, 1986 and it was Mrs. Loretta James with Astronauts Jared Walker, Kyle Smith, and Jackson Vincetti
CHALLENGER
The first mission to carry a teacher into space was a Challenger mission in 1986. This mission ended in tragedy when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All aboard died, including teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
The first teacher in space was to be on the tenth Challenger flight, STS-51-L, and the teacher selected was Christa McAuliffe as part of the 'Teacher in Space' project.Regrettably Christa was killed when the space shuttle Challenger was traveling towards space and exploded 73 seconds after launch. She did not actually reach space.In August 2007, Christa's back-up, made it into space as an 'educator astronaut' (although NASA apparently avoided calling her a 'teacher in space', as she had to give up her role as teacher on becoming an astronaut) on board STS-118, which launched on August 8, 2007.
The first dual mission in space started in 1963, space craft: Vostock 5-6 sent by the USSR
It was designed to fly in space, and its first mission was another test of the space shuttle.
CHALLENGER
The first mission to carry a teacher into space was a Challenger mission in 1986. This mission ended in tragedy when the Challenger exploded 73 seconds after launch. All aboard died, including teacher, Christa McAuliffe.
The first teacher in space was to be on the tenth Challenger flight, STS-51-L, and the teacher selected was Christa McAuliffe as part of the 'Teacher in Space' project.Regrettably Christa was killed when the space shuttle Challenger was traveling towards space and exploded 73 seconds after launch. She did not actually reach space.In August 2007, Christa's back-up, made it into space as an 'educator astronaut' (although NASA apparently avoided calling her a 'teacher in space', as she had to give up her role as teacher on becoming an astronaut) on board STS-118, which launched on August 8, 2007.
The first teacher in space was to be on the tenth Challenger flight, STS-51-L, and the teacher selected was Christa McAuliffe as part of the 'Teacher in Space' project.Regrettably Christa was killed when the space shuttle Challenger was traveling towards space and exploded 73 seconds after launch. She did not actually reach space.In August 2007, Christa's back-up, made it into space as an 'educator astronaut' (although NASA apparently avoided calling her a 'teacher in space', as she had to give up her role as teacher on becoming an astronaut) on board STS-118, which launched on August 8, 2007.
Christa McAuliffe would have been the first Teacher in Space, but was killed in the Challenger disaster and the program was canceled. McAuliffe's backup in the Teacher in Space Program, Barbara Morgan, eventually got hired in 1998 as a professional astronaut and flew on STS-118 as a mission specialist where she spoke to many students as an educator during the trip.
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Christa McAuliffe was chosen to be the first teacher in space, but she died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded on launch.
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