Christa McAuliffe Inspires me Because...

Christa McAuliffe Inspires me Because...

Christa McAuliffe is an inspiration for me and for many.

She went into the space program not for herself but to inspire her students and others that might hear about her. She hoped to get her kids(students) more interested in the sciences and, even if she had only gotten one of her students interested she said it would be worth it. She was also a wife and mother of two children teaching at her school before all of this and was a great teacher and influential parent. 

Christa McAuliffe

Who was Christa McAuliffe?

Christa McAuliffe was many things, a teacher, wife, mother and Astronaut. 

She was going to be the first teacher in space and was set to go up in the Challenger space shuttle. 

She was a Public school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire

She had a husband, Steven Corrigan, and 2 children, Caroline and Scott Corrigan.

She was on her flight with Gregory Jarvis, Judith A. Resnik, Francis R. (Dick) Scobee, Ronald E. McNair, Mike J. Smith, and Ellison S. Onizuka.

Her and the 6 other astronauts perished when flight complications occurred due to NASA rushing the process resulting of the explosion of the Challenger shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986

"Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can" -Christa McAuliffe

Video of the Challenger Flight/Explosion