Ovarian Cysts and Tumors Ovarian masses or neoplasms can be cystic or solid. A cyst is fluid-filled and a tumor or âmassâ is solid.
Christa McAuliffe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on September 2, 1948. A high school teacher, she made history when she became the first American civilian selected to go into space in 1985. On January 28, 1986, McAuliffe boarded the Challenger space shuttle in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
In 1982, Christa McAuliffe began teaching at Concord High School. In 1984, she learned of a program at NASA, Teacher in Space, to have a teacher on the space shuttle to communicate with students from space and lead them in lessons. She and 11,500 others applied.