what was the name of the woman who traveled into space for the first time, and when she did the system blew up

Question

What actually happened and where can i find information about this if anyone knows.

Answer 1

Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman (a Russian Cosmonaut) in space.

I am guessing though, that you are asking about Krista McAuliffe?

She was on Challenger when it exploded. One of the "O rings" in the Solid Rocket Boosters was cracked. It had been really cold on the launch pad the day it was set to launch. There was just a tiny bit of water in the crack that froze because of the temperature. When the shuttle took off, the heat that was generated caused the area to expand when the water melted, and from what I hear, you could faintly see what was later determined as fuel, streaming from the SRB seconds before it exploded..

Krista was to be the first teacher in space. After her passing, the torch of "Educator Astronaut" was passed to Barbara Morgan who went up on STS-118.
If you ever get the opportunity to hear her speak, you should. She is amazing.

Answer 2

Christa McAuliffe, unfortunately, never made it into space. Perhaps our most promising astronaut in the whole program also died in that explosion: Judy Resnik. She had already been on a previous mission. What made Christa such a sad situation was that she was not even an astronaut. She was a guest. In fact, the first true passenger on the space shuttle.

Keeping in mind Resnik was not the first woman in space.

(Sorry, folks, I originally misread the question.)

Answer 3

Christa McAuliffe
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christa_McAuliffe

Answer 4

Christa something. she was a teacher and th first woman to be an astronaught alas the challenger blew up 7 seconds after takeoff

Answer 5

New England school teacher, Christa Mc Cauliffe, & fellow astronauts, died aboard the Challenger on Jan. 28, 1986

Answer 6

I know it is K.Mc. -- Krista McAuliffe ? or Kate McCann ? :-)
The 'O' rings sealing the section of the solid rocket boosters were exposed to freezing temperatures during the night, as a result they did not seal the the sections, flames with the power of blow-torches bore a hole in the main fuel tank and 72 seconds after take off at an altitude of 220,000 feet, BANG!
Considering that a jet airliner n a 10 + hour flight can cruise at 40,000+ feet, 220,000 feet is very high altitude.

Answer 7

Valentina Tereshkova

http://www.lostcosmonauts.com/wom.htm

Sharon McAuliffe (Krista was her middle name)

http://history.nasa.gov/sts51l.html

Answer 8

The teacher's name was Christa McAuliffe. Check out these websites:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger
http://history.nasa.gov/Biographies/challenger.html

Answer 9

Christa McAuliffe (the spelling may be off a bit but it was pronounced /muh-KAHL-iff/. There was a malfunction of some sort but I can't remember what it was.

Answer 10

i just remember she was a teacher who won a contest to orbit into space and when the spaceship went into the sir it blew up...thats all i know, but check out google.com and put in challenger and see if it gives her name!