No teacher has ever been better prepared to teach a lesson. — Christa McAuliffe Education Copy Share Image
I really don't want to say goodbye to any of you people. — Christa McAuliffe Goodbye Copy Share Image
If anything, the overriding emotion is gonna just be excitement. — Christa McAuliffe Emotion Copy Share Image
The Twilight Zone' wasn't around with the kids. They think going up in space is neat. Within their lifetime, there will be… — Christa McAuliffe Kids Copy Share Image
If anything happened, I think my husband would have to deal with that as the time came. — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
It's not the Olympics. It's Concord, New Hampshire, and a homecoming should reflect the community I'm part of. — Christa McAuliffe Community Copy Share Image
The president felt that it was important to send an ordinary citizen to experience the excitement of space travel as a representative… — Christa McAuliffe Excitement Copy Share Image
We haven't sat down with Scott and Caroline and said, Now you realize that there's X amount of pounds of thrust. And… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Just as the pioneer travelers of the Conestoga wagon days kept personal journals, I, as a pioneer space traveler, would do the… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
When I'm 60, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, What really happened that year? — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
We sat around one night and thought that people are going to look back and say, I can't imagine there was a… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Space is for everybody. It's not just for a few people in science or math, or for a select group of astronauts.… — Christa McAuliffe Astronaut Copy Share Image
I cannot join the space program and restart my life as an astronaut, but this opportunity to connect my abilities as an… — Christa McAuliffe Ability Copy Share Image
You have to dream. We all have to dream. Dreaming is OK. Imagine me teaching from space, all over the world, touching… — Christa McAuliffe Boundaries Copy Share Image
My job in space will be to observe and write a journal. I am also going to be teaching a class for… — Christa McAuliffe Class Copy Share Image
I told them how excited I would be to go into space and how thrilled I was when Alan Shepard made his… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I was a little concerned with how the crew was going to view me because I didn't know whether this program had… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I will have a one-hour program called the Mission Watch, where I will describe details of the mission and give additional information… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
Sometimes when things get kind of frantic, it helps to call my husband Steve, because I think he's got a real good… — Christa McAuliffe Frantic Copy Share Image
It was hard telling those kids...that I wasn't going to be there this year. And I knew I was going to miss… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I have a vision of the world as a global village, a world without boundaries. — Christa McAuliffe Boundaries Copy Share Image
I will go around the space shuttle and give a guided tour of the major areas and describe what is done in… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
I can remember in early elementary school when the Russians launched the first satellite. There was still so much unknown about space.… — Christa McAuliffe Elementary school Copy Share Image
If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
NASA was going to pick a public school teacher to go into space, observe and make a journal about the space flight,… — Christa McAuliffe Copy Share Image
