christa' s honor flew at concord high before making its way to its permanent home at the christa mcauliffe library in framingham. inside the school in a class founded by christa mcauliffe, entitled american women, students gathered to hear about or were at concord high school that fateful day. about christa, don' t make her t a saint. [laughter] she got bored with meetings. ray: mcauliffe was one of apply for the teacher in space program. kristin jacques: we got to hear her experience of applying for the teacher in space program, how she barely made the deadline, ran out of her house in her pajamas to get to the post office so that it was postmarked in time. ray: being chosen to be the first teacher in space catapulted mcauliffe to international celebrity, but a colleague says mcauliffe never forgot who she was. sue capano: she was down in houston, and she had told her people, "you guys got to fly me up to new hampshire." we' re in training," and she it' i' ve got to be there." ray: colleagues and former students also recalled how what had been a party atmosphere quickly changed once the but today

christa's honor, flew at concord high school before making its way to its permanent home at the christa mcauliffe library in framingham. inside the school in a class founded by christa mcauliffe, en tileed american women -- christa, don't make her into her sister teresa. she wasn't a saint. she was late for meetings. reporter: mcauliffe was one of 10,000 teachers to apply for the teacher in space program. >> to hear her experience of applying for the teacher in space program, how she barely made the deadline, ran out of her house in her pajamas to get to the post office site was postmarked in time. reporter: being chosen to be the first teacher in space cat aputted mcauliffe to international celebrity. but colleagues says she never forgot who she was. >> she was down in houston and she had told her people, you guys gotta fly me up to new hampshire and they said no no no we're in training here, and she said you have to fly me to new hampshire, it's the first day of school, i gotta be there. reporter: what had been a party atmosphere quickly changed once the disaster struck. but today was more about mcauli