Teacher in Space Project to interested teachers while 11,000 teachers sent completed applications to NASA. Each application included a potential lesson that would be taught from space while on the Space Shuttle. The applications were sorted and then sent to the various State Departments of Education, who were then responsible for narrowing down their state applicants to a final set of two each. These applicants were notified of their selections and were gathered together for further selection processes down to ten finalists. These were then trained for a time, and in 1985 NASA selected Christa McAuliffe to be the first teacher in space, with
Bob Hohler Bob Hohler Robert T. "Bob" Hohler is an investigative sports reporter for "The Boston Globe" (""The Globe""). He also writes in-depth news stories ("enterprise reporting") for "The Globe". Hohler was "The Globe's" Boston Red Sox beat reporter during their 2004 championship run. Hohler is native of Boston, and a graduate of Suffolk University. He worked at the "Monadnock Ledger", and then at the "Concord Monitor" beginning in 1983. While a columnist at the "Concord Monitor", he wrote the book, "I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe", which describes the life of New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe who died