New Hampshire
Became a state: June 21, 1788 (9th state)
Area: 9,359 sq mi (ranked 46th in size)
Population: 1,235,786 (ranked 41st in population)
Capital: Concord
Largest City: Manchester (population 108,580)
Bordering States: Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont
Origin of state name: New Hampshire was named by Captain John Mason after Hampshire, England.
State Nickname: The Granite State
State Bird: Purple Finch
State Flower: Purple Lilac
State Tree: White Birch
State Gemstone: Smoky Quartz
Trivia: Christa McAuliffe was a teacher at Concord High School in Concord, New Hampshire and was also a member of the crew that was killed in the Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster in 1986. In 1985, McAuliffe was selected from more than 11,000 applicants to participate in the NASA Teacher in Space Project (capacity as a kind of Spaceflight participant), and she was scheduled to become the first teacher in space. As a member of mission STS-51-L, she was planning to conduct experiments and teach two lessons from Space Shuttle Challenger. On January 28, 1986, her spacecraft disintegrated 73 seconds after launch. After her death, schools and scholarships were named in her honor, and in 2004 she was awarded the Congressional Space Medal of Honor. McAuliffe's remains were buried at Blossom Hill Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire. She has since been honored at many events, including the Daytona 500 auto race in 1986. The Christa McAuliffe Planetarium/McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center in Concord and the Christa Corrigan McAuliffe Center for Education and Teaching Excellence at Framingham State College are named in her memory, as are the asteroid 3352 McAuliffe, the crater McAuliffe on the Moon, and a crater on the planet Venus, which was named McAuliffe by the Soviet Union. Approximately 40 schools around the world have been named after her, including the Christa McAuliffe Space Education Center in Pleasant Grove, Utah.
Abbreviation: NH
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