American Patriot Quiz
Christa McAuliffe and the Challenger

On August 27, 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced the NASA Teacher in Space Project, which would send the first civilian, an educator who could communicate with students in orbit, into space. Christa McAuliffe was later selected from 11,000 applicants. She, along with six other crew members, died in January 1986 when the Challenger exploded after launch.
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1. What subject did Christa McAuliffe teach?
2. After being selected by NASA to be a civilian mission specialist on the Challenger, where did McAuliffe train?
3. What title did McAuliffe give the televised lesson she planned to teach from space?
4. How many missions did the Challenger spacecraft complete before it exploded?
5. Who was the mission commander aboard the Challenger that fateful day?
6. Complete this line from Reagan's infamous speech following the Challenger tragedy: "The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the __________ ."
7. Why did investigators determine the o-rings on the rocket booster failed on the morning of the launch?
8. Which of the following people was NOT on the presidential commission that investigated the Challenger tragedy?
9. Navy divers aboard which vessel located the crew compartment of the Challenger shuttle on the bottom of the ocean six weeks after the tragedy?
10. McAuliffe's alternate for the Challenger flight, a former math teacher named Barbara Morgan, subsequently served as mission specialist on which shuttle flight?