Christa McAuliffe Vice President George H. W. Bush announced that she had been selected for the position. Another teacher, Barbara Morgan, served as her backup. According to Mark Travis of the "Concord Monitor", it was her manner that set her apart from the other candidates. NASA official Alan Ladwig said "she had an infectious enthusiasm", and NASA psychiatrist Terrence McGuire told "New Woman" magazine that "she was the most broad-based, best-balanced person of the 10." Later that year, she and Morgan each took a year-long leave of absence from teaching in order to train for a space shuttle mission in early 1986.
Christa Schroeder Munich. Schroeder died on 28 June 1984 in Munich aged 76. Christa Schroeder Emilie Christine Schroeder a/k/a Christa Schroeder (19 March 1908 – 28 June 1984) was one of Adolf Hitler’s personal secretaries before and during World War II. She was born in the small town of Hannoversch Münden and moved to Nagold after her parents died. There she worked for a lawyer from 1929 to March 1930. After leaving Nagold for Munich, Schroeder was employed as a stenotypist in the "Oberste SA-Führung", the "Sturmabteilung" (SA) high command. There she got to know Hitler in early 1933, when he had