| |
| | Space Explorers - EnchantedLearning.com |
 | | Shepard and Mitchell landed on the moon in the lunar module (landing near the Fra Mauro Crater) on February 5, 1971, while Roosa orbited the moon in the command module. |
 | | McAuliffe was killed, along with her six fellow astronauts (Francis R. Scobee, Michael J. Smith, Judith A. Resnik, Ellison S. Onizuka, Ronald E. McNair, and Gregory B. Jarvis), when the NASA's Space Shuttle Challenger Mission 51-L exploded only 73 seconds after its launch on the morning of January 28, 1986. |
 | | Sharon Christa Corrigan McAuliffe (1948-1986) was an American schoolteacher who chosen to be first teacher in space. |
| www.enchantedlearning.com /explorers/space.shtml (1116 words) |
|