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Original Title: TIL Christa McAuliffe, who was the teacher who died on the Space Shuttle Challenger, was 1 of 11,000 applicants in NASA’s search to find an “ordinary person” to put their first civilian in space. She later remarked, “If you’re offered a seat on a rocket ship, don’t ask what seat. Just get on.”