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In the payload bay of a shuttle training module, crew mates assembled for a LIFE portrait. From left to right: Commander Francis "Dick" Scobee, Ellison Onizuka, Judith Resnik, Christa McAuliffe, Ronald McNair and pilot Michael Smith. (Astronaut Gregory Jarvis, also aboard the ill-fated mission, is not pictured here.) As the photo was being taken, McAuliffe pointed to the woodwork along the tail of the spacecraft mockup and laughed, "Look at all those cobwebs." Later, McAuliffe told LIFE: "I must admit I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this (citizen-in-space) program had been kinda forced down their throats. But they were wonderful."