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 ...

And the best way to do that is to send astronaut teachers into American schools to share their space flight experience. The group also hopes the project will spur interest in math, the sciences ...

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 ...