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I’ll be coming in trying to be Christa McAuliffe, a female American astronaut. The reason McAuliffe made an impression on me is because she was not originally trained to be an astronaut, she was originally a teacher. She was the first educator to become an astronaut, and was chosen to spearhead NASA’s ‘Teacher in Space’ project by planning to, of course, teach classes in space. The project, while not having technically practical uses, was a new way to use the space program by aiming directly to honor/inspire teachers and students. There are even now several schools named in her honor.

But unfortunately, McAuliffe and six other astronauts were killed in the shuttle Challenger shortly after launch in 1986, where it broke apart before it cleared the atmosphere.