Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer, decades after she was picked to become America’s first teacher in space. Now she’s the first woman to be memorialized with a statue on the grounds of New Hampshire’s Statehouse, in the city where she taught high school. McAuliffe was one of seven crew members who died when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart shortly after takeoff in 1986. In Concord, an 8-foot-tall bronze statue of McAuliffe in a NASA flight suit was unveiled on Monday on what would’ve been her 76th birthday. Sculptor Benjamin Victor said McAuliffe’s “inspiration hasn’t been lost in the disaster and her memory will go on forever.”