First Lady Dr. Jill Biden will visit the Christa McAuliffe elementary school in Concord Wednesday to pay tribute to the New Hampshire woman chosen 35 years ago to be America’s “Teacher in Space” and to emphasize that the $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief plan signed into law by the president last week will provide funding for the reopening of schools.
Christa McAuliffe was to be America’s first civilian to travel into space chosen to participate in the NASA “Teacher in Space” project in 1985. She died in the explosion of the Challenger space shuttle on Jan. 28, 1986.
The Concord school, named for her, opened in 2012.
