Christa McAuliffes science lessons to be taught aboard space station
0Christa McAuliffes science lessons to be taught aboard space station.
More than three decades after Christa McAuliffe, NASA’s first “teacher in space,” perished aboard the Challenger space shuttle, classroom lessons she intended to teach on the mission will find an audience, NASA said.
Two latter-day teachers-turned-astronauts plan to pay tribute to McAuliffe by performing a handful of her lessons aboard the International Space Station over the next several months.
McAuliffe had planned to experiment with fluids and demonstrate Newton’s laws of motion for school children, but she never made it to orbit: McAuliffe and six crewmates were killed during liftoff of space shuttle Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986.
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