On this day in 1984, President Ronald Reagan announced that the first citizen to go into space would be a teacher. Everyone says that teachers are important. We even have “National Teacher Day” (May 7). But when President Reagan announced that the first citizen in space would be a teacher, he was showing the nation that teachers really are special. Eventually, Christa McAuliffe was chosen. Then, tragically, she died when the Challenger exploded on take-off on January 28, 1986. Not all teac