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communicating the space experience

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sending someone into Earth orbit who

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could tell us what its life in our own

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terms has long been a NASA goal and in

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August 1984 the spaceflight participant

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program was given the greenlight

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by President Reagan today I'm directing

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NASA to begin a search in all of our

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elementary and secondary schools and to

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choose as the first citizen passenger in

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the history of our space program one of

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America's finest a teacher last June the

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semi-finalists in NASA's teacher and

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space project met the press for the

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first time in Washington DC the 114

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educators selected from over 11,000

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applicants

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spent a week in the nation's capital

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becoming familiar with the history of

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space travels and of course taking notes

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in workshops dealing with various

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aspects of shuttle flight get it red-hot

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the next major milestone came in early

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July when the ten finalists were

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announced these teachers had survived an

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extensive screening process but they had

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to demonstrate even more rike stuff

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during their two-week stay at the

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Johnson Space Center in Houston Texas

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after a series of tests to ensure that

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they were medically fit to fly aboard

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the shuttle the ten were given a ride on

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the kc-135 a hollowed-out had inject

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that simulates weightlessness for short

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but finally on July 19 cops I squash

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they then destroy dating back

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congratulations and they have a letter e

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school teacher from Ohio just selected

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as the back-up plan today and pushed

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them across Journal a high school social

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studies teacher she's the one who

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actually try this place it's it's not

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often that a teacher is at a loss for

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words I know my students wouldn't think

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so I've made nine wonderful friends over

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the last two weeks when that shuttle

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goes they might do one body but there's

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gonna be 10 souls that I'm doing with me

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Thank You c'n see everything selection

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water training in beauty I've been a lot

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during the shuttle flight in addition to

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keeping a journal

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mrs. McAuliffe will seek to live lessons

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from stage one called the ultimate seeds

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no a number other expensive oddly zoned

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for classroom use after the majority for

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I would like to humanize the space age

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by giving a perspective from a non

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astronaut because I think the students

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will look at that and say this is an

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ordinary person this ordinary person is

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contributing to history and if they can

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make that connection then they're going

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to get excited about history they're

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going to get excited about the future

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they're going to get excited about space

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understandably things at the McCallum

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house have change for example there's

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now a notice missing throws on the

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freezer to the microwave but husband

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Evan Turner daughter Caroline and son

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Scott took it on there as

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responsibilities without reservation you

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know you're talking about a human being

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being free of the bonds of gravity

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orbiting the Earth or many human beings

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have done that and I so I think both of

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us feel that whatever the price in terms

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of readjustments are my taking on things

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that I probably should have been doing

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before anyway and hadn't done whatever

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those prices are they certainly pale in

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and because even though mrs. McAuliffe

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was a great economics teacher I think

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what I learned most from her was outside

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the classroom she taught me that the

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little person counts in that anyone can

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make an effect on our society and on the

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world she proved that by being the first

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private citizen in space and being the

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first teacher in space and I think she's

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a tribute to her profession and we're

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all very proud of her I mean the whole

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thing is so gorgeous you just want to