“I touch the future. I teach.” - Christa McAuliffe In 1985, Christa McAuliffe made history as the first teacher selected to go to space as part of NASA’s Teacher in Space program. The program, which was designed in part to spark students’ interest in the STEM fields, would send McAuliffe into space on the Space Shuttle Challenger, where she would film demonstrations to later be used as educational materials in classrooms across the country. Tragically, the Challenger broke apart shortly after ta