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
Jack McAuliffe (brewer) Jack McAuliffe (brewer) John R. "Jack" McAuliffe (born 1945) is an American brewer best known as the founder of the New Albion Brewing Company in Sonoma, California. McAuliffe started the brewery, considered the first American microbrewery in the modern era, in 1976. , he lives in Arkansas. McAuliffe was born on May 11, 1945 Caracas, Venezuela. His father, John McAuliffe, intercepted and translated German documents for the FBI . At the conclusion of World War II, John McAuliffe was reassigned to a position with the United States Department of State in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, and then later in Medellín, Colombia. When