Taking Off (26 page)

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ABC News Reports: 7/19/1985; 1/23/1986; 1/28/1986.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thanks so much to:

•    The wonderful Nancy Gallt and Marietta Zacker of the Nancy Gallt Literary Agency.

•    The brilliant Walker team: Emily Easton, Beth Eller, Katie Fee, Mary Kate Castellani, and Deb Shapiro.

•    Awesome critiquers Sally Barringer, Leigh Brescia, Megan Crewe, Mary Ann Hellinghausen, Jennifer Jabaley, Morgan McKissack Lauck, Bettina Restrepo, and Christine Suffredini. And much gratitude to the Debs, who helped with title suggestions, prologue critiques, and general emotional bucking-up.

•    Barbara Morgan, the backup candidate for the Teacher in Space program, who recommended Robert Hohler’s book
I Touch the Future: The Story of Christa McAuliffe
, and to her assistant, Kimberly Long, for their help.

•    Robert Hohler, for such a close, detailed portrayal of Christa McAuliffe. I used many quotes of Christa’s from
I Touch the Future
in the hopes of providing an authentic glimpse of her enthusiasm and spirit.

•    Those who filled in the gaps of my memory of Christa McAuliffe, the Johnson Space Center, the Kennedy Space Center, the Clear Lake area, and shuttle flights in the 1980s: Michelle Brekke, Mike Fawcett, Fisher Reynolds, Gene Powell, and Pete Hasbrook. Special thanks to Jerry Swain for providing descriptions of the Shuttle Mission Simulator and reading over those pages of the manuscript to check for accuracy. Thanks to Warren Greg Barringer for his help with the troubles of the Beatmobile. Any errors are mine alone.

•    Ed and Grace Corrigan, for guiding to adulthood such an amazing human being.

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Summary: In 1985 in Clear Lake, Texas, home of the Johnson Space Center, high school senior Annie Porter struggles with her desire to become a poet, and when she meets Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher to go into space, just before her space shuttle flight, Annie’s resolve to pursue her dream is strengthened.
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[1. Self-realization—Fiction. 2. Poetry—Fiction. 3. Interpersonal relations—Fiction. 4. High schools—Fiction. 5. Schools—Fiction. 6. McAuliff e, Christa, 1948–1986—Fiction. 7. Challenger (Spacecraft)—Accidents—Fiction. 8. Texas—History—1951—Fiction.] I. Title
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