News That Affects You: - Lowell Wagner Jr - January 1986

Lowell Wagner Jr

Countdown to the First Teachernaut: Meet the world's first teachernaut. She's social studies teacher Christa McAuliffe, of Concord, New Hampshire. If all goes as scheduled, she will be joining the Space Shuttle crew on its January 22 mission. In the autumn of 1984, U.S. President Ronald Reagan announced that the first private citizen to get a seat on the Space Shuttle would be a teacher. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was swamped with applications from teachers hoping to be chosen. - Chemical Roulette by Robert C Taylor - The Automobile Turns 100 by Maria C Stahl... - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library