The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.
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Christa McAuliffe was a 20th-century American teacher and astronaut. Sharon Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher and astronaut from Concord, New Hampshire, who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger on mission STS-51-L, where she was serving as a payload specialist. Read more on Wikipedia →
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- Experience — Learning through living, doing, and facing the world