A Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space
- ISBN-10
- 0803264119
- ISBN-13
- 9780803264113
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 215
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2000-06-01
- Publisher
- U of Nebraska Press
- Author
- Grace George Corrigan
Description
The biography of Christa McAuliffe--the eldest child of a close Catholic Massachusetts family and a dedicated Girl Scout who came of age in the turbulent sixties and early seventies and became a schoolteacher and a mother. She was little known beyond her personal circle until selected by NASA to be the first civilian sent on a space mission as the "Teacher in Space."
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