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Given this record of disrespect for the dead, is it surprising then that Christa McAuliffe is being touted as a martyr for a cause other than the one she lived...
...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...
...aboard the space shuttle Challenger, not because of her commitment to the space program, but because of her commitment to public education. As the first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe saw a unique and dramatic opportunity to inspire American schoolchildren with the excitement of learning...
Still, all three networks performed with admirable sensitivity and restraint. Some viewers were offended at the oft-repeated shots that had been taped by WNEV-TV in Boston of Schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe's parents viewing the launch at the Kennedy Space Center. But interviews with grieving relatives were refreshingly absent. Though NASA had immediately sequestered the crew's families following the accident, network executives insist they would have avoided such interviews in any case. "We had our chance at the time of the accident," says Jeff Gralnick, vice president and executive producer of special programming for ABC. "The first rule...
...Christa McAuliffe, the schoolteacher, received most of the attention, and it is easy to see why. She was articulate and photogenic, a reminder to everyone of what classroom experiences were or should have been. Her presence made this shuttle flight different from the 24 that had gone before. She would be our representative in space, carrying the proxy for those of us who cannot go because we are too old or too young or too timid, or too busy holding down jobs, raising families and worrying about the mortgage. She called herself an "ordinary person," and that is how many...