A Journal for Christa: Christa McAuliffe, Teacher in Space

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."

• | Author: Grace George Corrigan
• | Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• | Publication Date: August 01, 2000
• | Number of Pages: 215 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0803264119
• | ISBN-13: 9780803264113