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...former Secretary of State who had lost Washington turf battles to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration. Neil Armstrong, who had taken "one giant leap for mankind" on the moon in 1969. Richard Feynman, the Caltech physicist who won his Nobel Prize 20 years ago. Others were fresher, including Astronaut Sally Ride, who in 1983 became the first American woman in space. They and nine other experts were appointed last week to a presidential commission charged with finding out why the space shuttle Challenger had blown up 73 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral, killing its seven-member crew...
CHRISTA McAULIFFE was not an astronaut. She was a public school teacher. She taught social studies and according to press accounts, stressed the impact of ordinary people on history...
...Christa McAuliffe is to be truly honored as the hero she was, she must be remembered as a teacher--not an astronaut. Public education needs a serious reappraisal and revitalization. There could be no greater way of honoring Ms. McAuliffe than to embark on this mission in her name...
...degree in electrical engineering in 1970. She landed a job as a design engineer with RCA Corp. in Moorestown, N.J., received her doctorate from the University of Maryland and went to work for the Xerox Corp. in El Segundo, Calif. In March 1978, Resnik began training as an astronaut with NASA; she had been chosen from more than 8,000 applicants. Said Resnik at the time: "This is the first semester since I was four that I haven't been in school...
After the U.S. put its first astronaut into space in 1961, Smith decided that was where he wanted to be. His first step was to gain admission to a service academy. "In high school he paid a lot of attention to academics because he knew that was the best way to get in," recalled his older brother Pat. Said Curtis Lancaster, Smith's football coach at Beaufort: "He always worked particularly hard at science and math because he knew he needed that for what he wanted to do." Smith graduated with honors, was voted Most Outstanding Senior by his classmates...