| Show 10— The Herald JournalCache Sunday January 5 1986 readers o S c9 pea 2 3 3 (A 9 Q S' Distinguished Achievements p Awards Winner y By BETTY DEBNAM froa The Mai Fife by Betty Debran 19M Univcnul Blasting Off Soon Pten fjynitirUe Teacher in Space The Mission Christa McAuliffe 36 is a social studies high school teacher She was selected from over 11000 teachers who applied Teachemaut McAuliffe is from Concord NH She is the mother of two children Scott age 9 and Caroline age 6 Christa McAuliffe told The This mission is planned for the last part of January It will last for six days crew and will carry a seven-membAnother woman Judith Resnick will also be on board This is her second er Mini Page: "I am keeping a diary now and I will keep one on board the trip shuttle and when I come back I The teacher will will be able to record an ordinary give two live lessons and also person's perspective (point of carry out other view) of the space age "I will also be teaching on board experiments The live lessons will be The space shuttle Challenger blasts off from its launchpad in a 1985 launch The Challenger is one of five NASA shuttles the shuttle "Kids want to know what it is like to be in space "What does your food taste like? How do you feel floating around?" Tune into her show from space for these and other answers A teacher will be a member of the crew of the next shuttle flight President Reagan announced that a teacher would be the first private citizen selected to go The teacher will give us all lessons about Barbara Morgan 36 a second-grad- e teacher from McCall Idaho is the back-u- p teachernaut She will go if Ms McAuliffe is unable to space 3Z carried on PBS Schools with communication satellites can pick them up too Halley utelllte coBmumcton satellite tap The Challenger will also launch two satellites One is a communications satellite that will be left in space The other satellite will study Halle s comet This one will be put into orbit left for 48 hours picked back up and carried back to earth |
