Christa McAuliffe Quotes

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Christa McAuliffe

Profession : Astronaut

Birth : September 2, 1948

I touch the future. I teach.

Christa McAuliffe

NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight, and I am a teacher who always dreamed of going up into space.

Christa McAuliffe

I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an educator with my interests in history and space is a unique opportunity to fulfill my early fantasies.

Christa McAuliffe

Reach for the stars.

Christa McAuliffe

Reach for it. Push yourself as far as you can.

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When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year?

Christa McAuliffe

I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space. People thought Mars was probably populated.

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I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people.

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If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came.

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If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement.

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The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be paying passengers on the shuttle.

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We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a lot of excitement about HER going up!

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Every shuttle mission's been successful.

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I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his historic flight, and when John Kennedy announced on the news that the men had landed safely on the moon, and how jealous I was of those men.

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The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative for all Americans.

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I have the LIFE magazine of the men walking on the moon.

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If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

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Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good sense of where everything's gonna be in a few years.

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I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information about the lessons from space.

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I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in each area. This will be called The Ultimate Field Trip.

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