You can explore McAuliffe's lessons further at the Challenger Center's website. NASA also has a PDF of "Challenger's Lost Lessons," which chronologizes the Teacher In Space project. Read next ...

When not teaching the kids ... His fifth and sixth-grade students all created their best “life in space” art projects and submitted some of them in the contest. All the students’ art ...

So, the space-loving art teacher in Aurora figured, why not enter his own creation, too? "I was thinking about what the astronauts would do for recreation, so I drew this guy on a rocket board ...

The contest theme is “The Life and Work of S. Christa McAuliffe, longtime educator and selectee of the NASA Teacher in Space Project.” Organizers are explicitly looking for characteristics ...

In the mid-1980s he was chosen as an alternate in NASA’s Teacher in Space Program.In 1983 he published From Rift to Drift: Iowa’s Story in Stone (ISU Press), and for several years wrote an astronomy ...