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.
Road Accident Fund cover to accident victims or their families, and indemnity cover to wrongdoers. Prior to 1997, the system of compulsory motor vehicle accident insurance was governed by the following legislation: • Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, 1942 (Act No. 29 of 1942); • Compulsory Motor Vehicle Insurance Act, 1972 (Act No. 56 of 1972); • Motor Vehicle Accident Act, 1986 (Act No. 84 of 1986); and • Multilateral Motor Vehicle Accidents Fund Act, 1989 (Act No. 93 of 1989). The RAF, as established by the RAF Act, is owned by the South African public. It is listed as a national public entity