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
Plug-in electric vehicle fire incidents battery pack reignited twice, requiring fire fighters to extinguish the burning battery pack three times. In reaction to this accident Tesla dedicated an over-the-air firmware update that allows limiting the top speed to between 50 and 90 mph to the deceased driver. On June 16, 2018 pedestrians on a Los Angeles street alerted a driver of a Tesla Model S that smoke was emanating from his vehicle. The driver pulled over and safely exited the vehicle and flames started shooting out from under it. Firefighters quickly extinquished the fire, which left the cabin unaffected. The National Transportation Safety Board subsequently