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.
Paul McAuliffe Council. In 2015, McAuliffe drafted the Moore Street Area Renewal and Development Bill 2015. As chairperson of Enterprise and Economic Development, he jointly delivered the Dublin City Local Economic and Community Plan and the policy Document Dublin A City of Village policy document. Paul McAuliffe Paul McAuliffe (born 8 February 1977) is an Irish politician. He has been an elected member of Dublin City Council since 2009 and chairperson of Dublin City Council's Enterprise and Economic Development Strategic Policy Committee. McAuliffe has contested a number of elections including the 2004, 2009 and 2014 locals elections to Dublin City Council, the