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.
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