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Christa McAuliffe +60

Citizen astronaut Christa McAuliffe would be just 60 years old today.

She was a 37-year-old schoolteacher from New Hampshire when she died in the 1986 explosion of the space shuttle Challenger.

McAuliffe was the same age as actors Billy Crystal and Samuel L. Jackson and former vice president Al Gore.

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