News about Christa McAuliffe

On Nasa's last lunar mission, astronom Gene Cernan paused for one last look at the Moon from the surface before scaling the ladder and closing the hatch. The commander of the Apollo 17 mission in 1972 had a solemn message from space for mankind: "I take Man's last step from the surface, back to home for a few months, but we suspect not too long into the future: "I believe that Man's destiny has forged Man's destiny of tomorrow." Cernan was angry that humans never mustered the political will to return and he was left with the name 'Last Man on the Moon'' until his death aged 82 in 2017.

A crew was scubating off the coast of Florida when they discovered what was part of the Challenger's heat shield, marking the 'first finding of wreckage' from the 1986 craft in more than 25 years. The Challenger was launched on January 28, 1986, but it exploded just 73 seconds after launch due to a failure and killing the seven astronauts onboard.

Although BBC's The Newsreader is a fictional account of a young journalist on a television station, so much of it is startlingly familiar to me, writes AMANDA PLATELL. I admit that with our bouffant brunette hair and power suits, there are some physical similarities between me and Helen Norville's main character (left and right). When provoked, our faces display a symmetry and an expression that can sometimes seem a bit scary. Of course, we are both Australian. No wonder so many of my friends and colleagues who have been watching this series have declared: 'OMG, you are absolutely Helen!' Despite this, I must emphasize that I was never a door-screamer or ball-breaker like her, and that the bulk of my early careers I enjoyed was smiling because I loved my work on the Perth Daily News so much.

The four-minute film, shot by optometrist Jack Moss, gives a completely different perspective on the tragic event that claimed the lives of seven people, including science teacher Christa McAuliffe, who had been selected by NASA to become the first civilian to fly. Moss watches the introduction with his wife and neighbor before the corporation discovered something wrong in a tape shot from his back garden in Winter Haven, Florida, in 1986.