Christa McAuliffe

Sharon Christa McAuliffe was an American teacher from Concord, New Hampshire, and was one of the seven crew members killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

McAuliffe was born as Sharon Christa Corrigan on December 22, 1948, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was the eldest of the five children of accountant Edward Christopher Corrigan of Irish descent and Grace Mary Corrigan , a substitute teacher, whose father was of Lebanese Maronite descent. McAuliffe was a great niece of LebaneseAmerican historian Philip Khuri Hitti. She was known by her middle name from an early age, although in later years she signed her name S. Christa Corrigan, and eventually S. Christa McAuliffe.

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