LANCASTER, Calif., March 28, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Los Angeles County's top education and probation officials cut the ribbon today on the largest hands-on vocational

Students in McAuliffe's Home Town Plan Community-Wide Space Science Night Attended by McAuliffe's Mother Framingham, MA (Vocus/PRWEB) January 27, 2011 Christa McAuliffe's passion for engaging students in space science is evident at the school bearing her name in Framingham, MA -- but this was not always the case.

January 28, 2011 will mark the 25th anniversary of the Space Shuttle Challenger tragedy, in which Christa McAuliffe and six other crew members were killed.

Science teachers Joseph Acaba and Richard Arnold II have spent the past five years training to perform a job no educator has done before: conducting multiple spacewalks.

Liz Gonzales, an independent Emmy-winning TV newswoman, has died of cancer in San Francisco. She was 51.