Christa McAuliffe was the school teacher astronaut who was killed in the Challenger shuttle explosion in 1986. She was selected from thousands of applicants to be the first civilian in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch on January 28, 1986, tragically killing all seven astronauts on board, including high school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The accident was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal in one of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, leading to a catastrophic structural failure of the spacecraft. It was a devastating event that led to significant changes in the space shuttle program.
The teacher who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 was Christa McAuliffe. She was selected to be the first teacher in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
"Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L." This is from Wikipedia, and I think this is what you need :)
The teacher who was killed in a space shuttle flight was Christa McAuliffe. She was selected to be part of the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger for the NASA Teacher in Space Project in 1986, but tragically, the shuttle exploded 73 seconds after launch, resulting in the loss of all onboard, including McAuliffe.
Christa McAuliffe
Challenger
The space shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch on January 28, 1986, tragically killing all seven astronauts on board, including high school teacher Christa McAuliffe. The accident was caused by the failure of an O-ring seal in one of the shuttle's solid rocket boosters, leading to a catastrophic structural failure of the spacecraft. It was a devastating event that led to significant changes in the space shuttle program.
Space shuttle Challenger's explosion
She was an astronaut on board the space shuttle Challenger, which exploded soon after take-off from Cape Canaveral on 28th January 1986. All on board were killed, Resnik amongst them- she died in the explosion.
The teacher who was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986 was Christa McAuliffe. She was selected to be the first teacher in space as part of NASA's Teacher in Space Project.
Kalpana Chawla was killed when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during re-entry on February 1 2003.
The female astronaut who was killed in the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster in 2003 was named Kalpana Chawla. She was a mission specialist on the STS-107 mission.
Ronald McNair was an African American astronaut that was killed in the space shuttle Discovery accident.
"Ronald Erwin McNair (October 21, 1950 - January 28, 1986) was a physicist and NASA astronaut. McNair died during the launch of the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L." This is from Wikipedia, and I think this is what you need :)
There were two onboard the Challenger space shuttle which was destroyed during launch in January 1986 when the external tank exploded 73 seconds after lift-off. They were mission specialist Judith A. Resnik (on her second shuttle flight) and Christa McAuliffe, who was to have been the first teacher in space.
Christa McAuliffe was to have been the first teacher in space, 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, Barbara Morgan, entered space on August 8th, 2007 as an 'educator astronaut' but NASA apparently avoided calling her a 'teacher in space', as she had to give up her role as teacher to become an astronaut. See the ' Teacher In Space' Related Link below.