So painful to be reminded -- "Mrs. McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, N.H., won a nationwide competition to go on the Challenger mission and was go

So painful to be reminded -- "Mrs. McAuliffe, a high school teacher from Concord, N.H., won a nationwide competition to go on the Challenger mission and was going to broadcast two lessons from space to students around the country. She was married to Steven McAuliffe, and the couple had two children; the three of them, plus her parents and hundreds of students from Concord, gathered in Florida to watch the launch. Schools across the United States tuned in to a live broadcast."