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Our angels 🤍🪽🪽 Christa McAuliffe, 37-year-old was set to become the first educator in space, having been chosen from a pool of more than 11,000 applicants for the NASA program. NASA selected McAuliffe for this position in the summer of 1984 and in the fall she took a year-long paid leave of absence from teaching and trained for an early 1986 Shuttle mission. Judith A. Resnik was one of three mission specialists on Challenger. Selected as a NASA astronaut in January 1978, the first cadre conta