Prices in the Los Angeles area, as measured by the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U), declined 0.3 percent in August, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. (See table A .) Regional Commissioner Richard J. Holden noted that the August decrease was influenced by lower prices for gasoline.
NASA officials were reportedly especially impressed with her course on The American Woman which she had developed and taught. Barbara Morgan was the backup Teacher in Space who also trained with NASA in the astronaut training program. Christa McAuliffe was scheduled to teach two lessons from the space shuttle.
Like Sally Ride before her, Sullivan considered herself an astronaut first, and a female astronaut a distant second. She was born in Paterson, New Jersey, on 3 October 1951, although her family moved to California when she was six years old and she attended Californian schools, finally entering the University of California at Santa Cruz to study Earth sciences.