the Discovery Center is also a science museum. It’s dedicated to Christa McAuliffe, a Concord High School social studies teacher who was selected by NASA to be the first teacher in space ...

“Christa McAuliffe was selected out of over 11,000 people to become NASA's first teacher in space,” said Jeanne Gerluskis, the former director of the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center.

A selection of memorabilia related to Christa McAuliffe, NASA's first teacher in space, is displayed Dec. 16 at the McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord, N.H. McAuliffe taught social ...

"Happy birthday, Christa." McAuliffe was a 37-year-old high school ... on the Space Mirror Memorial at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and as the namesake of numerous schools.

Before Christa McAuliffe was ... learning and telling stories. McAuliffe was 37 when she died, one of the seven crew members aboard the Challenger when the space shuttle broke apart on live ...