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Today would have been #NASA #Challenger #astronaut Christa McAuliffe's 70th birthday. She was born #OTD in 1948.

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Dozens of educators who competed alongside Christa McAuliffe to become the first teacher in space gathered Thursday to remember the seven astronauts who perished aboard Challenger 30 years ago.

Concord Monitor reporter Bob Hohler recounts his seven months with Christa McAuliffe before the Challenger disaster in this 1986 Yankee classic.

S85-40075 (12 Sept. 1985) --- Teacher-in-Space participant Christa McAuliffe is pictured during her briefing on suit and personal hygiene equipment to be used on the STS-51L mission. Photo credit: NASA

Yesterday's passage of 28 years since the loss of Challenger on 28 January 1986 has done little to dim the memory of what President Ronald Reagan once described as her seven "star voyagers." Mission 51L, had it succeeded, would have a relatively "vanilla" shuttle flight, with two major payloads—NASA's second Tracking and Data Relay Satellite (TDRS-B)