Though the Rogers Commission denied it, Cook maintains the Reagan Administration pushed hard for NASA to launch shuttle mission 51L against engineers’ recommendations so that "Teacher-in-Space" Christa McAuliffe would be aloft in time for the president's 1986 State of the Union Address.
Christa Wolf | Christa Ludwig | Terry McAuliffe | Anthony McAuliffe | Christa Williams | Christa Miller | Christa McAuliffe | Ron McAuliffe | Nichola McAuliffe | Michael Francis McAuliffe | John B. McAuliffe | Christa Wolf's | Christa Reinig | Christa Luding | Christa Collins | Christa Bonhoff | Christa Bauch | Christa Ackroyd | 3352 McAuliffe |
Upon arriving in Concord, New Hampshire in January 1986 to cover the hometown hooplah for the looming Space Shuttle Challenger launch where Concord teacher Christa McAuliffe is among the mission's crew, reporter Campbell Babbitt (Steve Coogan) decides to call an old college friend, only to discover an apparent suicide.
3352 McAuliffe, an asteroid named after astronaut Christa McAuliffe