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| Name: | USS Christa McAuliffe |
| Registry: | NCC-860 |
| Class: | Gagarin |
| Type: | Science scout |
| Affiliation: | Federation Starfleet |
USS Christa McAuliffe (NCC-860) was a Gagarin-class science scout on active duty in Starfleet during the late 23rd century.
McAuliffe surveyed UFC-2116 in February, 2288. (Star Trek: Avenger: "As Others See Us") The following month, McAuliffe was reassigned from a vegetation-testing mission on Stonybrook VII to pick up several marine biologists and data from a cetacean research project on Maßship IV. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Operations Log — USS Avenger")
Bruce Brocton served aboard McAuliffe prior to his transfer to USS Avenger in mid-2294. (Star Trek: Avenger: "Thy Avenging Spirit")
Nomenclature[]
The ship was the namesake of American civilian astronaut Christa McAullife (1948-1986), who died in the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986.
| Gagarin-class starships |
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| USS Bluford - USS Bondarenko - USS Christa McAuliffe - USS Cooper - USS Grissom - USS Leonov - USS McCandless - USS McKay - USS Ride - USS Shepard - USS Tereshkova - USS Thagard |
| Starships named Christa McAuliffe |
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| USS Christa McAuliffe (NCC-860) - USS Christa McAuliffe (24th century) - USS Christa McAuliffe (NCC-72003) |
Fan organizations[]
McAuliffe was a Massachusetts-based chapter in Starfleet International in the 1980s and 1990s.
A later chapter, simply called the McAuliffe, was based in New York City.