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The Journal News from White Plains, New York • Page 7

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The Journal Newsi
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White Plains, New York
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THE JOURNAL-NEWS, FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 1986 pace teSKDooir ready So I p- I 'I A I 1 cr j. i i sons in my life. I've been preparing these since September and I just hope everyone tunes in on Day 4 to watch the teacher teaching from space." More than 600 educators and 4,000 students from around the country will be here to observe Sunday's liftoff. Challenger's other crew members are commander Dick Scobee, pilot Michael Smith, Judy Resnik, Ellison Onizuka, Ron McNair and Greg Jarvis. During the flight they are to deploy one satellite to study Hal-ley's comet and a second to become part of the space-based shuttle tracking network.

But most public interest is focused on Mrs. McAuliffe, 37, who was selected from 11,146 applying teachers to be the first candidate to make a trip on the shuttle in NASA's citizen-in-space program. She will teach two 15-minute lessons Wednesday from her celestial classroom, at 11:21 a.m. and things as magnetic lines of force, bubbles, the operation of small machines and plant growth. "I'll also be doing something on Newton's laws of motion because a lot of teachers say it is very difficult to teach these laws when you have gravity to contend with down here on Earth," Mrs.

McAuliffe said. "I feel a great responsibility representing my profession. I was delighted that a teacher was chosen for the space participant that teachers were recognized as good communicators who reach so many students. She said her experience "is going to enhance the teaching that I do and get the students most excited about their future, which is important." Her only regret, she says, is the time she has to spend away from her attorney husband and their two children, Scott, 9, and Caroline, 6. All three are here to cheer her on Sunday.

12:51 p.m. EST. Public Broadcasting Service will carry the telecast live, and hundreds of schools plan to tune in. Students at Concord High School and at McCall-Donnelly Elementary School, McCall, Idaho, will be on a special two-way hookup so they can ask questions of the orbiting teacher. Mrs.

McAuliffe's backup, Barbara Morgan, teaches at the McCall school. "The lessons will be a whole crew activity," she said. "The first will be a field trip of the spacecraft. I'll start on the flight deck and tell about life aboard the shuttle. The second lesson Why We Are In Space I'll start with the Wright brothers and the progress we've made and look ahead to the space station." Throughout the flight she will participate in several demonstration projects that will be photographed and edited after the flight into a film for distribution to schools.

These will involve the effect of weightlessness on such By HOWARD BENEDICT AP Aerospace Writer CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) Christa McAuliffe, an exuberant schoolteacher from New Hampshire, says she will feel "a great responsibility representing my profession" when she flies into space Sunday aboard the shuttle Challenger. "I'm hoping this is going to elevate the teaching profession in the eyes of the public and those potential teachers out there. And hopefully students are going to be looking at me and perhaps think of going into teaching as a profession," she said. In addition, she told reporters recently, a lot of the students who will be watching her lessons from orbit might learn something that couid help them prepare for space careers.

"That's a new world out there, a new frontier, and there are a lot of people we have in our classrooms who will be living and working in space," said Mrs. McAuliffe, who teaches social studies at Concord High School. She and her six crewmates flew here Thursday from the astronaut training base in Houston and today were to review the flight plan for the six-day mission. The countdown was on time for a liftoff Sunday at 9:36 a.m. EST.

"I am so excited to be here," Mrs. McAuliffe said as she arrived. "I don't think any teacher has ever been more ready to have two les- Christa McAuliffe, the space teacher, leaves Houston for the" Kennedy Space Center Thursday. McAuliffe will be conducting two classes from the Space Shuttle Challenger, scheduled for liftoff Sunday. tt NOW THRU open Sun.

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24, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49. On this date: In 1908, the first Boy Scout troop was organized in England by Robert Baden-Powell. In 1916, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the federal income tax was constitutional.

In 1922, Christian K. Nelson of Onawa, Iowa, patented the Eskimo Pie. In 1924, the Russian city of Petrograd was renamed Leningrad in honor of the late revolutionary leader. In 1935, Bruno Hauptmann took the stand in his New Jersey trial on charges of kidnapping and murdering the baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh. In 1943, President Franklin D.

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One year ago: The space shuttle Discovery was launched from Cape Canaveral, in the first secret military flight of NASA's shuttle program. And, a New York federal jury found that Time magazine did not libel former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon in a 1983 article about the 1982 massacres at two Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon. Today's birthdays: Television producer Mark Goodson is 71. Actor Ernest Borgnine is 69. Evangelist Oral Roberts is 68.

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