In 1985, NASA chose Christa McAuliffe, a Framingham native and high school teacher in Concord, New Hampshire, to be the first civilian to go into space. McAuliffe died the following year onboard the ...
Kandice Seiberling and future NASA astronaut Judy Resnik were great childhood friends during the 1950s at Fairlawn Elementary School in Akron, Ohio — they rode bikes and skated together, and ...