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Typed letter signed “S. Christa McAuliffe” one page, 8.25 x 11, NASA letterhead, September 18, 1985. Letter to Marie Adelstein in the Bronx, New York, in full:
Thank you for your note of congratulations. I’m delighted that so many people are interested in the program.
It is exciting for me to be representing the teaching profession and I am looking forward to being a part of the shuttle crew on January 22, 1986.
New Hampshire schoolteacher (1948–1986) who was the first teacher in space; she perished, along with all six other crew members, during the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986 (our letter was sent just 4 months before the launch, which was delayed from its original date of January 22).
Typed letter signed “S. Christa McAuliffe” one page, 8.25 x 11, NASA letterhead, September 18, 1985. Letter to Marie Adelstein in the Bronx, New York, in full:
Thank you for your note of congratulations. I’m delighted that so many people are interested in the program.
It is exciting for me to be representing the teaching profession and I am looking forward to being a part of the shuttle crew on January 22, 1986.
New Hampshire schoolteacher (1948–1986) who was the first teacher in space; she perished, along with all six other crew members, during the Challenger disaster on January 28, 1986 (our letter was sent just 4 months before the launch, which was delayed from its original date of January 22).