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President Ronald Reagan Mentions the ""First Teacher Program"", Which Would Select Christa McAuliffe for the Coveted Chance to Ride the Challenger by Ronald Reagan

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Title: President Ronald Reagan Mentions the ""First Teacher Program"", Which Would Select Christa McAuliffe for the Coveted Chance to Ride the Challenger
Author: Ronald Reagan
Seller: The Raab Collection (United States)
Description: 26/06/1985. The Challenger disaster was one of the milestone’s of Reagan’s presidency, and his famous eulogy for the Challenger astronauts is considered by many his greatest speech in officeThe space shuttle Challenger became the second shuttle to reach space, when it was launched successfully in April 1983. It successfully completed nine milestone missions during its nearly three years of service. In total, the spacecraft spent 62 days, 7 hours, 56 minutes and 22 seconds in space. Challenger hosted the first spacewalk of the space shuttle program on April 7, 1983, and carried the first American female and first black astronauts. Before it was launched again, NASA created an initiative to give people from all walks of life a chance to experience spaceflight firsthand. The first such civilian would be a teacher, one in the new Teacher in Space program, who would be selected from 11,000 teacher applicants for the historic chance.Douglas Morrow was a Hollywood screenwriter and film producer. He earned an Academy Award for his script for 1949's The Stratton Story, a biography of Baseball player Monty Stratton, who was disabled in a hunting accident. Reagan, who catapulted to fame as an actor, became friends with Morrow when Morrow sought to cast him in that part, remained friends throughout the Hollywood days and kept in contact through most of his presidency. Morrow was a part of the civilians in space program, and hoped to go into space himself. He wrote his friend President Reagan about it.Reagan responded, but offered little hope in the immediate future. One of the reasons he cited was the Teacher in Space program that selected Christa McAuliffe for the coveted chance to ride the Challenger. Typed letter signed, on White House letterhead, Washington, June 26, 1985, to Morrow. He starts by mentioning his own efforts to keep fit, then talks about the prospects for Morrow to go into space, and finishing by discussing Social Security reform, which he says will minimize the tax that funds the program. “I'll continue to plug but don't overtrain. What with the international program plus such things as the ‘first teacher’ idea, it looks like there is a waiting line building up…“Doug, the tax on Social Security when there is outside income was one of the steps taken by the bipartisan commission that set out to rescue Social Security from bankruptcy. If we can get our tax reform passed, I believe the new rates plus the doubling of personal exemptions will minimize the tax to a considerable extent. Our best to Margot - from Nancy and me.”It was a cold morning on January 28, 1986, when Challenger was supposed to fly into space on its latest mission. Temperatures dipped below freezing and some of the shuttle's engineers were concerned about the integrity of the seals on the solid rocket boosters in such low temperatures. Nonetheless, Challenger launched at 11:38 a.m. Eastern time in front of more media attention than usual, since it was carrying McAuliffe, who was planning to give lessons while in orbit. But McAuliffe and the rest of the crew never made it. In full view of the television cameras, Challenger broke up 73 seconds after launch.""Flight controllers here are looking very carefully at the situation. Obviously a major malfunction,"" the NASA launch commentator said, as pieces of the shuttle fell from the sky into the Atlantic. Salvage crews spent several weeks recovering pieces of the shuttle and carefully bringing up the remains of the seven astronauts. Remains that could be identified were turned over to the families, while the rest were buried in a monument to the Challenger crew at Arlington National Cemetery on May 20, 1986.The Challenger disaster was one of the milestone’s of Reagan’s presidency. His famous eulogy for the Challenger astronauts is considered by many his greatest speech in office. He ended by saying, “The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and ‘slipped the surly bonds of earth’ to ‘touch the face of God.’”In actuality, though, Challenger’s explosion devastated the space shuttle program in several ways. Plans to fly civilians in space (such as teachers or journalists) were shelved for the next 22 years, until Barbara Morgan, who was McAuliffe’s backup, flew aboard Endeavour in 2007. Satellite launches were shifted from the shuttle to reusable rockets. Additionally, astronauts were pulled off duties such as repairing satellites, and the Manned Maneuvering Unit was not flown again, to better preserve astronaut safety. Morrow never did get into space.

The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored,) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865 by [African Americana]: Chenery, William H.

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Title: The Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored,) in the War to Preserve the Union, 1861-1865
Author: [African Americana]: Chenery, William H.
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Very good plus.
Description: Providence: Snow & Farnham, Printers and Publishers, 1898. Very good plus.. xi,343pp., plus thirty-nine photographic portrait plates. Original red cloth stamped in gilt. Floral endpapers. Minor edge wear, slight dust-soiling to spine but boards bright. Internally clean. An unusually nice copy of Chenery's scarce history of the African-American Fourteenth Rhode Island Regiment of Heavy Artillery. The unit saw their main combat in Louisiana and Texas during the Civil War. The present work begins with an overview of African American service beginning with the American Revolution, but rightly, most of the work is devoted to the unit's actions during Civil War. The book is particularly useful for tracking the troops comprising the Fourteenth Regiment; as Nevins points out, "half of this unique history of a Negro unit consists of muster rolls and short biographical sketches." Almost forty photographic portrait plates are peppered throughout the book, and feature the regiment's white officers. "In an attempt to prove their worth as soldiers and to defeat the slave-holding South, both northern and southern blacks enlisted by droves in the Union army. Naturally, they also wanted to be active in securing the emancipation of slaves and ending slavery as an institution. When Colonel Thomas J. Morgan of the Fourteenth Regiment Rhode Island Heavy Artillery took the opportunity to ask one of his black soldiers why he wanted to fight when he might very well lose his life, the artilleryman replied, 'But my people will be free'" - smallstatebighistory.com.

Period of Adjustment by Williams, Tennessee

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Period of Adjustment
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: New York: New Directions, 1960. First edition. Reddish cloth, fine in nearly fine dust jacket (small nick). Crandell A22.1.

Garden District. Two Plays. Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer by Williams, Tennessee

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Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books

Title: Garden District. Two Plays. Something Unspoken and Suddenly Last Summer
Author: Williams, Tennessee
Seller: Thomas A Goldwasser Rare Books (United States)
Description: London: Secker & Warburg, 1959. First edition. Green boards, fine in dust jacket. Crandell AA4.

The Santa Claus Club, Santa Claus for President by BRIDGMAN, L.J.

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Title: The Santa Claus Club, Santa Claus for President
Author: BRIDGMAN, L.J.
Seller: Sandra L Hoekstra Bookseller, ABAA, ILAB, IOBA (United States)
Condition: Very good
Description: New York and Boston: H.M. Caldwell Company, 1907. Cloth. Very good. 12mo; [76]pp; light brown pictorial cloth over board, illustration of a rabbit and bear marching with a drum featuring Santa Claus's face and campaign-style banners on front; pictorial endpapers in green and white; ownership in pencil on verso ffep; thick creamy stock; "Merry Christmas Member's Certificate" before the title page; fp and pictorial title page; 32 full-page black and red illustrations; illustrations in text; wear and light soiling to boards, a few pages with creases and fingermarks. Scarce in the marketplace. OCLC locates 10 copies. A scarce and charming book that begins with a "Member's Certificate" for the owner, signed by "Holly Berry." Lively illustrations with pictures of children and anthropomorphic animals.

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