| SPACE APPLE 1988-1998 |
SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE |
The Space Apple was a 7.5" wooden, magnetic, apple-shaped pencil holder made by a group of fourth graders at the Jesse Keen Elementary School in Lakeland and carried on the Discovery shuttle flight in September 1988 as a tribute to teacher/astronaut Christa McAulliffe, who died in the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger in 1986. Included are correspondence, postcards, newspaper clippings, and a typescript article about the "Space Apple" by the teacher whose class made it.
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