TIL that Christa McAuliffe, the teacher who died in the Challenger explosion, wasn't the first-choice person NASA wanted to put in that seat.
Their first choice was _Big Bird_:
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/nasa-confirms-talks-fly-big-bird-doomed-shuttle-challenger-n353521
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