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The person I am researching is Christa Mcauliffe. She is the most courageous person I’ve ever researched. She was a teacher, a mom, and a woman who was reaching for the stars.
Mcauliffe was both a junior high and high school teacher at Benjamin Foulois. When she was chosen to go to space, where a terrible accident happened, which caused her death. Christa Mcauliffe graduated from Framingham State College in Massachusetts and begun teaching at Junior high,she got chosen to go to space in 1985, and she died due to a space challenger explosion.
Mcauliffe went to college at Framingham State College.She got her masters degree in teaching at Bowie State College,and she taught history and english.
The way Mcauliffe was able to go to space was NASA

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